Bede House Farmhouse

Bede House Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 15th century, with alterations and additions from the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone, featuring ashlar quoins and stone dressings, and has a Collyweston slate roof. The building has two brick and two moulded stone ridge and gable stacks, as well as a single brick wall stack at the rear.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and consists of a hall house with a solar cross wing. The east garden front showcases a central gabled cross wing with a three-light casement window under a timber lintel on the ground floor, and a similar two-light window above. To the right is an 18th-century wing with a single doorway that has a 20th-century glazed door, followed by a small two-light casement window and two two-light casements above. To the left, the hall range features two three-light casement windows under timber lintels, with a similar central two-light casement flanked by single three-light casements above. At the junction with the cross wing, there is a small lean-to porch with a 20th-century plank door under a timber lintel. The south gable wall has a single two-light casement window on the upper floor.

The west rear front includes a gabled cross wing with a single-storey 19th-century lean-to addition and an upper plain sash window. To the right of the hall range, there is a remnant of a 17th-century mullion window with a single blocked light in a moulded ashlar surround, and an inserted two-light casement to the left with a blocked window beyond. To the left, there is a former doorway with a 20th-century window above two two-light sliding sashes.

Inside, the farmhouse retains two cruck trusses in the cross wing roof and arched brace trusses in the former open hall roof, which features smoke-blackened timbers and the remains of a smoke hood. The hall has been floored in, and fireplaces were inserted in the 17th century, with surviving chamfered beams. The hall also retains a screens passage with 18th-century panel doors and round-arched cupboards. The roof timbers have been dendro dated, indicating a likely felling date of 1404 for the cross wing timbers and a precise felling date of 1433 for the hall.