Ciliau

Entering the house via the N doorway, the cross passage has ornate ceiling with roll-moulded beams; post and panel partition to hall, with chamfered architrave on high base to doorway. Hall has substantial beamed ceiling, the longitudinal beam carried at each end on chamfered posts with moulded brackets. Cross-beam to S wall curiously stepped (in order to avoid wall above window?). Moulded cornice survives on S wall above window and on staircase. C17 dog-leg staircase against S wall and passage partition: shaped newels with ogee caps, turned balusters and closed string. Lateral fire-place against N wall. The most striking feature of the hall is the wall-painting: the painting on the dais-end partition is remarkably complete, probably based on blackwork textiles of the later C16: the tripartite design has a frieze of strawberries above a central panel with leaf and flower trails, birds and beasts. Further wall-paintings (possibly belonging to an earlier phase of decoration) have been found on the S wall, and there are traces on the cross-passage partition.

Inner bay beyond dais-end partition was later subdivided to form two rooms. In the parlour, the longitudinal beam is supported on a moulded post similar to those in the hall; the beam is plastered, and there is a deep moulded plaster cornice, probably representing early C18 remodelling. Remains of staircase visible alongside fireplace. Small room to S has broad chamfered ceiling beam with run-out stops.

Beyond the cross-passage, the kitchen has wide fireplace against side wall; 3-bay ceiling with broad flat joists and mortices in S beam indicating position of former partition creating small service room to S. Post and panel partition, with shaped heads to two doors, again giving evidence for the original layout of this end as two service rooms originally entered from the cross-passage.

First-floor: central room reveals the arch-braced collar trusses that formed the roof of the open hall; traces of painted fictive close-studding in each long wall. The room above the kitchen in the E cross-gable was remodelled in 1709: the date appears in a carved timber panel with stylised tulips above the doorway to a closet, and there is a good contemporary bolection moulded fireplace. Fragment of moulded decoration on truss survives from the earlier late medieval arrangement.

A hall house, in which the central hall is set between flanking outer bays, which present gabled fronts to both elevations suggestive of cross wings. Lime-washed stone with slate roofs, but retaining stone flagged roof to E cross-gable. Cross-gabled bays have integral stacks in their outer walls, with paired shafts to E, single shaft to W. Hall has massive projecting stack in N elevation. On this elevation, cross-passage entry alongside E cross-gable, the disturbed masonry suggesting some re-working, but the carpentry retaining chamfered frame and shaped door-head, and double-skinned boarded door with strap-hinges and draw-bar. Blocked window with dressed stone surround alongside doorway (a similar window concealed by lean-to addition beyond the fireplace), and very small gabled dormer window in roof of hall above. Small cross-window in left hand gable, lighting kitchen, and a single window at first floor alongside the stack in the E elevation. Beyond the hall stack, a C19 lean-to projects across hall and cross gable. West cross gable has cross-window to ground floor (offset to left) and similar window in upper floor, reduced in size from a wider original. Both gables have projecting joist ends, indicating former timber-framed jetty.

South elevation: blocked cross-passage doorway with stone arched head; alongside it, the existing doorway to kitchen has 4-centred arched head and dressed stone surround, possibly re-using stone taken from N cross-passage entry. Kitchen (in E end bay) has 2-light mullioned-window to ground floor with remains of chamfered stone head, and 3-light window above. The stonework is stepped back at first floor level, probably relating to reconstruction of the former timber-framed upper storey in stone; remains of timber-framing clearly visible in inner return wall of this gable, as also that to W. The evidence suggests a hierarchical arrangement, with higher-status close-studding over the parlour bay, square-panelled framing at the service end. Hall has large C19 3-light mullioned and transomed window; 2 dormers in the roof light its upper storey. W gable has small window to ground floor, wider window with timber mullions at first floor, offset to right, and once wider.