Abbey Farm House

Abbey Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, which incorporates some medieval materials from the site of Stixwould Priory located behind the house. It has undergone alterations in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, rendered on the front, and features an old plain tiled roof at the front and pantiles at the rear, with a single gable and two ridge stacks. It has a T-plan layout and is two storeys high with an attic, presenting an irregular nine-bay front. The right-hand end has a cross wing that projects two bays.

The entrance features an off-centre 20th-century panelled door with a contemporary open Doric porch, which replaced a 19th-century open porch. This door is flanked by three glazing bar sash windows, with two additional glazing bar sashes further to the right. On the first floor, there are seven similar windows, and one more is located in the gable of the right-hand cross wing. All windows have cambered heads. The roof includes two glazing bar sash dormers with cambered roofs and lead cheeks.

The side and rear walls contain numerous fragments of medieval masonry, some of which are decorated, and the rear wall features a 14th-century cusped and crocketed niche. Inside, the parlour retains a fine moulded and stopped beam, and the roof structure consists of staggered butt purlins with numbered principals, reusing some medieval smoke-blackened timbers. Stixwould Priory was a nunnery of the Cistercian order.