| Summary: | The former farmhouse was recorded in 2007-8 during extensive repairs. The primary structure, probably of early 16th-century date, had a two-room and cross-passage plan; it consisted of an open hall with a smoke-blackened roof, separated from a ground-floor parlour and first-floor chamber by a cob wall. In the early 17th century a bay was added to one side of the hall, which was refloored and provided with a fireplace; a small room, probably a kitchen, was added on the street frontage. Various late 17th-century and later phases followed. The analysis of samples of historic thatch, some smoke-blackened, is described. |
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