Description
Grade II*
House. Late C16. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 1½ storeys, floors at different levels following the line of the hill. All windows have cavetto moulded surrounds and mullions. 3-room plan. 1st cell has 3-light window. 2nd cell, 4-light housebody window; 2-light fire-window. 3rd cell has two 2-light windows. Lobby entry to rear has cavetto moulded surround. Covered by C19 lean-to with cellar. Left hand return wall has 2-light window at 1st floor level. Coped gable with kneelers. Right hand return wall has 2-light window (blocked) with single light to apex. One stack to ridge. Interior has bressumer in housebody directly under king post truss the principal rafters of which cross at apex with a diagonally set ridge. It is most probable that the housebody was an open hall with fire-hood, with to either side rooms with upper chambers lit by windows in the gable ends. A rare survival of a small open-hall house. C. F. Stell, p.lll-113.
NGR SE 01326 24646
Historic England List Entry Number 1230058
CMBC Ref HR 4/195