Middle Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Built in 1855 by S S Teulon for the Crown Commissioners. The farmhouse is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a Welsh slate roof. The building has an approximate T-shaped plan, with a two-room east entrance front - an entrance hall is to the left and a single room to the right – and a twin-gabled wing to the rear, with a garden entrance on the left return.

The east front has two storeys and four first-floor windows. It is asymmetrical, with a gabled two-window section projecting forward to the left of centre. There is a chamfered plinth. The main entrance has a step up to a recessed board door in a chamfered wooden frame and a chamfered segmental-headed brick reveal. Above the door is a chamfered trefoiled panel set beneath a segmental relieving arch, containing a painted lozenge-shaped relief panel with a royal cypher, crown, and date. To the right of the entrance, a section projects forward featuring a ground-floor canted bay window with plate-glass sashes, ashlar lintels, and sills. The first floor of this section has a pair of 12-pane sashes beneath segmental arches and segmental-pointed relieving arches with herringbone brick infill. There is a circular flush brick panel to the gable, with stepped eaves and tumbled-in brickwork. The section to the right of the main entrance has tall, unequal 15-pane ground-floor sashes and 6-pane first-floor sashes, all with sills and segmental arches. A corniced axial stack is located to the right. A single-storey, two-window wing is set back to the right, with a board door beneath a segmental-pointed arch and 16-pane and 12-pane sashes beneath segmental arches.

The left return forms the south garden front and has four first-floor windows. A gabled two-window range projects forward to the right, featuring a 12-pane segmental-headed ground-floor sash, a small decorative panel to the left with brick and ashlar insets in a chamfered segmental-headed reveal, a segmental-headed 12-pane stair window, a first-floor casement, a circular flush brick panel, stepped eaves, and tumbled-in brick to the gable. All windows below the first floor have pointed relieving arches with decorative brick infill. A section set back in the angle to the left has a single-storey porch with a 20th-century glazed door beneath a segmental arch and hipped roof, and an 18-pane window to the right with a similar 9-pane casement to the first floor. A wing to the left has a 12-pane ground-floor sash beneath segmental and pointed relieving arches, and a 12-pane half-dormer with tumbled-in brick to the gable. The roof is double-span and has a projecting corniced end stack with tumbled-in brick to the offsets. The north range of the wing has a half-hipped roof, and there is an adjoining single-storey outhouse with a hipped roof.

The interior features a closed-string staircase with a moulded handrail, a chamfered newel, and Gothic-style splat balusters with pierced trefoils. There are panelled doors in architraves. The farmhouse is one of a series of 19th-century Crown estate buildings designed by Teulon.