The view today (April 2008) from the viewpoint used by W.A. Green is slightly different. The tree on the left, just in front of the house, is a Yew tree and growing well. It must be several hundreds years old. The tree on the right of the lane is sadly no longer there having died and fallen.

The front of the house has had a porch added in the centre so that the plan of the house looks like an 'E' as befits its Elizabethan heritage. A couple of the windows were repositioned at the time of the restoration but apart from this the house still looks very imposing and full of history.

Owing to the size of the house it was, at the time of the major rebuild, split into two.

In the drawing the far end of the house used to be a granary. Over the centuries rats had eaten the grain that had fallen into the timber frame joints, damaging the woodwork and by the time that the drawing was made (1956) it was in a pretty bad state. The part nearest in the drawing was not too bad but the far end was on the point of collapse and took many years of work to restore.

There are one hundred and fifty tons of stone on the roof and when the wind blows I am always amazed that it remains there!

Internally the ground floor room adjacent to the huge chimney, (25' x 20' at the base), remains as it was in Elizabethan times. A fireplace which feeds heat to a large copper bowled water heater is still in situ. There is also a huge bread oven, circular, some twelve foot in diameter and probably still usable.

Photograph and information supplied by Howard Conway, 3rd April 2008