The wing is semi hexagonal with an apsidal shaped inner, top of photo the two walls of the main structure can be seen running under the church hedge, the wing is a later addition and is not keyed into theses walls. There were three phases identified. Of the first little is known, probably a plain rectangular structure contained within the churchyard, the surviving walls under the hedgerow are probably foundations for a timber structure. The second phase was the addition of a wing, again stone foundations for a timber structure, the bottom two courses of stone are those foundations.
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There was a complete reconstruction of the wing, if not the whole building, the wing was stripped to the foundations and rebuilt, this time almost certainly in stone. The north wall (right) was moved northwards some 25cm, the part surviving top course is the remains of this phase, on the north side a new foundation was constructed in clay reinforced with large cobbles, the new position for the north wall was partly over the old phase 2 foundations and over the newly created foundation. It can be seen that the opus signinum floor associated with the latter phase is laid partly over the old foundation.

The intrusions into the floor are post robbing/demolition, despite the recovery of flue tile fragments, the late phase of the wing does not show any evidence of heating ducts, eventually the floor will be sectioned in order to determine if there is evidence of a earlier floor below, and hypocaust furniture if possible. Thousands of tesserae have been recovered, these fall into two categories, app'x two thousand were found in a series of postholes, still being excavated, these are all unused, circa 2-2.5cm square, and Black in colour. Others were found in the general debris of the wing and are considered to be contemporary with the first phase of the wing, these are used, Red, White, and Black, and are smaller at 1-1.2cm square, the evidence suggests to least two mosaics were present at some time.

The 3rd phase reconstruction coincided with the final redundancy of the ditched enclosure, the ditch, by now heavily silted, was used as a dump for building debris, stone and tile. At the same time a new walled enclosure was constructed 2m outside the old ditch line, a second enclosure, adjoining the first on the south side was also built. The second enclosure had an entrance on the east side, on each side of the entrance inside the enclosure were two light buildings, parts of the stone foundations still survive.

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