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Farmhouse. Dating from the 16th century, with significant alterations in the early 18th century and 19th century. The farmhouse is constructed of red brick and close-studded timber framing with plaster infill, with some areas encased in brick and clapboard. It has plain tile roofs with three brick ridge stacks and two gable stacks. The building has two storeys and an irregular plan. The east elevation has four bays, with exposed close-studded timber framing. The right-hand two bays appear to be the earliest parts. It is twin-gabled, with a central stack and a first-floor jetty. The upper floor is clad in clapboard. The ground floor has two 3-light casement windows and a door to the left. Above, there are two similar 3-light windows and two single-light trefoil-headed windows in the gables. A large, gabled two-storey porch is located to the right, featuring close-studded construction with a middle rail and decorative timbers in the gable. It has a moulded floor plate. An oak panelled door leads into the porch, above which is a 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed window with diamond leaded lights. To either side of the porch are a 4-light and a 3-light wooden mullion window. There is a further bay to the right, with a 3-light wooden casement window on the ground floor and a 2-light window above. The north gable end displays exposed timbers with a middle rail and moulded brackets. An early 18th-century west wing is constructed of brick with a first-floor band and a second-floor band on the south gable end, which has two 2-light casement windows with gauged brick heads. The lower window has metal diamond lights. To the right is irregular fenestration of tripartite casement windows, each set beneath a segment head. A 19th-century southwest wing is also part of the building. The south gable end of this wing has a chamfered plinth, a first-floor band, and a blocked doorway and a blocked window with a gauged brick head on the ground floor. Internally, the farmhouse features exposed ceiling beams. The centre room on the ground floor has Jacobean panelling and a stone chimneypiece. There are several early Georgian panelled doors, and a bedroom at the south end has a wooden bolection moulded chimneypiece. Within the roof is an older, possibly medieval, crown post collar purlin roof of two full bays, smokeblackened and with ashlar pieces from the rafters to the wall plates.