Old House Farmhouse And Adjoining Outbuilding

This is an early 16th-century farmhouse, with alterations and extensions in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is situated alongside an adjoining outbuilding. The farmhouse is timber-framed with rendered infill on a rubble base, with some painted rubble refacing, and has plain tiled roofs with a brick stack along the main ridge. The building consists of a main range and a cross-wing, with a later east cross-wing forming an outbuilding.

The main range originally comprised three framed bays, aligned east/west, featuring a large chimney between the west and central bays. A two-bay cross-wing is situated at the west end, with a largely rebuilt external chimney of rubble and brick. In the 17th century, an east cross-wing of four framed bays was rebuilt or added, and an upper floor was inserted in the main block. The farmhouse is partially two storeys high, with a single-storey section and an attic with dormers. The main range has framing with three panels from sill to wall-plate, and some short straight upper corner braces. The east cross-wing has close-set studding to its north front end, and the first floor juts out on shaped brackets, while elsewhere it features four rows of square panels. A collar and tie-beam truss with struts is exposed at the south gable end of the cross-wing.

The north front has three ground floor, three-light casement windows in the main range, one of which is larger and has a cambered head. There are two gabled dormers; one is 17th-century, with a five-light, chamfered, mullioned and transomed window, while the other is 19th-century with a three-light casement. A lean-to canopy with straight timber brackets shelters the main entrance, located to the left of centre, and a half-glazed door provides access. A ledged and battened door is at the eastern end. The gable end of the east cross-wing has a large 19th-century casement window and a small, original, three-light ovolo-mullioned window on the ground floor, along with a five-light first floor casement with plank weathering. In the angle between the buildings, there is a restored two-light, chamfered-mullioned window with plank weathering. A 19th-century lean-to outshut is at the west side of the main range, and a lean-to addition is at the rear.

Internally, the farmhouse displays some 17th-century stop-chamfered ceiling beams. A ground floor room in the main range has run-out moulded chamfer stops and a large fireplace with a chamfered lintel. The room above has an exposed cusped swept wind-brace. Further original arched doorheads are also present. The adjoining outbuilding has rubble walls with some weather-boarded timber framing and a corrugated metal roof, with four framed bays, partly two levels, a rectangular ground floor window, an attic light, and a ledged and battened door on the north gable end. Inside the outbuilding, the wall framing has two rows of large panels, and the roof features collar and tie-beam trusses with struts and three tiers of purlins.