Home Farm House

Home Farm House is a farmhouse dating to the 17th century, with possible medieval origins in a cross-wing. The building's history is complex and uncertain. The main structure is of stone, timber framing (now concealed and brick-clad), and brick, with tile and Welsh slate roofs.

The principal range is two storeys and was extensively remodelled, creating a double-depth wing with various roof levels. This wing has gabled fronts facing the garden and connects to a rubble cross-wing that may be late medieval. The core rooms are within the principal range, which incorporates a converted barn.

The farmyard elevation is irregular, with four windows to the first floor featuring 20th-century 2 and 3-light casements. A pentice roof covers the doorway and a canted bay window, with a small single-light window to the right. The rear elevation of the principal range has a regular two-window disposition under a cogged brick eaves cornice. The windows are 2 and 3-light casements with segment heads, leaded on the first floor and with external shutters to the ground floor. A gabled porch is centrally positioned over the doorway. An attached former barn is irregularly fenestrated.

The return of the principal range and wing features an oversailing corridor above a corner entrance, with a large ridge stack above. The wing towards the farmyard has 2 and 3-light casements. The garden front is dominated by the end wall of the principal range, featuring a 2-light first-floor window and a blocked attic window, both with labels, likely dating to the 17th century, along with a shallow porch to a French window below. To the right is another wing with one window to each floor and attic, and a third, lower wing sits between them, also similarly fenestrated. An extremely tall stack rises from the ridge.

The rubble cross-wing, also two storeys with an attic, has a gable wall rebuilt in brick towards the garden. It has one 2 or 3-light window to each floor, with a blank elevation facing the farmyard and a brick end stack.

The interior of the rubble wing includes chamfered ceiling beams and joists on the first floor, with a roof featuring very large scarfed side purlins supported on massive raking struts. The attic contains ventilated panelled nesting boxes with an egg shelf. Various joinery details are present, some with HL hinges. The principal range has mainly unchamfered ceiling beams. The returning wing has large chamfered ceiling beams, one with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, and a large bressumer to the fireplace. Evidence of timber framing is visible at the junction of the ranges.

The house stands adjacent to extensive manorial earthworks.