The Building's Protected History Explained (Grade II Listing)

If you have ever had to duck your head walking through our doorways or noticed that no two floorboards in the dining room run truly level, you have experienced our Grade II listing firsthand.

Holding a Grade II status means our walls, beams, and hearths are formally protected under British heritage law, preserving a tangible slice of local history that dates back centuries. While it means every single repair requires skilled conservation joiners, breathable lime mortars, and traditional pigments, it also protects what makes this place irreproducible. We aren’t allowed to knock through walls for modern open-plan spaces, replace draughty timber sashes with modern plastics, or straighten the warped ceiling beams—and frankly, we wouldn’t want to. When you pull up a chair here, you are sitting in a room that has sheltered travellers, farmhands, and neighbours through generations, kept exactly as it was meant to be.