Exterior

Little altered timber-framed L-plan house dating from about 1600, possibly built by Hugh Rodd, brother of Richard Rodd of Herefordshire. 2 storeys, rubble footings, close studding, 1st floor jettied with partly moulded-jetty beam on curved brackets. Infilled 1st floor doorway with arched lintel (2-storey porch now removed), main entrance with boarded and studded door. 2 windows wide, cantilevered 6-light oriels planted on bracket supports under cill beams, leaded lights. One 3-light window flush-set to left. Corrugated-iron roofs, massive rubble stack to right gable with 4 diagonal stems, smaller stack to left side. Lean-to rubble extensions to left and right ends.

Rear elevations with similar detailing, rear wing jettied over ground floor with corner brackets under beam (upper floors temporarily covered).

In progress of restoration from use as a farm store.

Interior

Internal plan-form has hall and kitchen on the main front separated by an entrance passage, and a parlour in the rear wing with a great chamber over. All the main rooms were heated by fireplaces of dressed stone, internal square-framed partition walls with wattle and daub infill, stop-chamfered joists, wooden bressumers, stairs in fireplace gable end etc.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q17742360

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)