King'S House

The King's House is a house dating back to the 17th century. It was remodelled in the late 18th century, extended during the 19th century, and altered in the 20th century. The construction combines plastered cob with painted brickwork, and it features a pantile roof with half-hipped and gabled ends capped with stone coping. Brick stacks are positioned axially and at the ends of the building.

The original layout consisted of a three-room plan: a parlour on the west side, a kitchen on the east side, and a central unheated room (now the entrance hall). Around the 18th century, a fourth room was added to the east, featuring a large fireplace which backs onto the original kitchen fireplace. A small wing was also built behind the kitchen. In the 19th century, outshuts were added to the rear, and in the 20th century, the eastern outshut was raised to two storeys.

The south front is asymmetrical, with a three-bay arrangement on the left and a single bay on the right. It features 20th-century casement windows. A central doorway is sheltered by a 20th-century porch. A dormer window is located at the eaves level on the right side. The rear (north) elevation has a catslide roof over the outshut, a small gabled wing centrally located with further outshutting to its left, and a heightened outshut to the left, both with 20th-century casement windows.

The interior retains much of the joinery from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including fielded panel doors and a china cupboard with shaped shelves in the parlour. The parlour fireplace has a curved back and a rough timber lintel, with winder stairs to the side. The central room on the left features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The former kitchen (now the right-hand room) has deeply chamfered cross-beams with step stops and a fireplace lintel, which has been partially removed. The larger room on the right also displays stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a large brick fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel, an oven, and a small opening to the side. A chamber on the west side has an early 19th-century grate and a side cupboard with boarded doors and strap hinges. The west range has three roof trusses with mortice and tenoned collars and trenched purlins. The eastern addition has two trusses with lapped collars at a higher level.