Lower House

Lower House is an early 15th-century cruck-framed building with a 16th-century two-storey, jettied crosswing, significantly renovated in the 20th century. The walls are largely rendered, except for the rear gable end of the wing, rebuilt in rubble stone, and the front gable which displays close-set timber framing with a renewed bressummer over rubble plinth walls. The roof is covered in stone tiles. There are large rubble end stacks, one with modern brick cappings, and a brick ridge stack. A central gabled roof dormer is visible on the front of the lower range. All windows and doors are modern.

The interior is remarkable, featuring much exposed timber and some early painted decoration. The original range consists of one-and-a-half bays of a high-quality cruck house. Two full cruck trusses are visible, alongside a plain partition truss adjacent to the crosswing and an ornate central open truss. The open truss has chamfered arch bracing with numerous long protruding pegs, and is cusped above the collar to create an elongated quatrefoil and two trefoils. The truss is heavily smoke-blackened, as are the surviving original trenched purlins and common rafters. Unusual, early windbraces are present on the south wall, curving braces extending from the wallplate to just above the upper purlin where they are trenched and secured with two long protruding pegs. The closed partition cruck truss has an empty slot for a lap-jointed cambered collar; a later collar is above a modern door opening.

On the ground floor, the hall bay is divided by a modern partition. A large timber lintel with a moulded top piece is visible, along with two axial beams with a chamfer and scroll stops; one beam end rests on a moulded, scroll-stopped wall post set against an exposed timber-framed wall of large horizontal panels. The front room of the crosswing has exposed joists of thick section, chamfered with square-cut stops. The first floor of the wing is divided into two rooms open to the roof. The front room has a central open collar-beam truss with chamfered collar, principal rafters, purlins and common rafters. The partition truss features queen posts. The rear room has similar chamfered roof timbers and a central open truss with chamfered diagonal braces above the collar. Traces of original painted decoration remain, including a large Tudor Rose on one principal rafter. Distinctive carpenters' marks in the form of circles, segments and crosses are also present.