It was built in 1648, is timber-frame, jettying to the front and side, and with a dragon beam, and bears the crest of Sir James Duke, 1st Baronet.

[4] The oak timbers were cut to size at a saw mill, and reassembled on site, incorporating fragments of an earlier building.

A brick chimney stack with fireplaces for cellar, ground and first floors provides the house with structural support.

The roof is supported by a queen post structure, and would originally have been thatched; now clay-peg tiles.

For much of the nineteenth century it was a grocer's shop, for a time selling produce from the farms of Sir James Duke, 1st Baronet, whose crest is displayed.