Ball Farmhouse

Ball Farmhouse is a house dating back to the 16th or early 17th century, with additions and alterations from the early to mid-19th century. It is timber framed, originally with rendered infill, but largely rebuilt to the exterior in the early/mid 19th century using red Flemish bond brick, and covered with a plain tile roof. The house is two storeys and has an attic.

The entrance front has four bays, with a gabled projecting wing on the right. This wing features a three-light, cambered-headed window with tile sills on both the ground and first floors. The attic has a two-light casement window. To the left of this projecting wing are three recessed bays, the centre of which has a projecting, two-storey gabled porch built onto a fragment of the original timber-framed wall, displaying two posts behind the upper wall. The porch contains a six-panel door, the upper four panels raised and fielded. A two-light casement window is positioned on the first floor. To the right of the porch is a ground-floor window of two lights with a cambered head and tile sill, and to the left, a similar window of three lights. Two-light casement windows flank the first floor on either side. A massive ridge chimney stack with four flues rises above the entrance. The right-hand side has a large chimney stack with four flues and offsets. To the right of this is a section of timber framing to the first floor, characterized by close studding, a middle rail, and a further cross rail above. A casement window with an ovolo-moulded wooden surround of five lights, with mullions and a transom, appears to be of 16th or early 17th century origin. The rear of the house displays a timber-framed gable mostly obscured by a later 19th-century gabled projection of lesser height. The right-hand flank of that wing shows small framed walling with an angle brace. To the right of this is simulated timber framing, and beyond this, close studded framing with a middle rail to the first floor, though the ground floor is obscured by 19th and 20th-century outshuts.

Inside, the house features ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with end stops and rafters, an ingle nook fireplace with a moulded bressumer, and an arch with a central pendant boss. The staircase has spiral balusters replacing the original splat balusters and massive square newels with ball finials. The house also contains linenfold and other panelling. One first-floor room features foliate ornament to the plaster ceiling.