Binweston Farmhouse

This is a manor house, now a farmhouse, dating to the 15th century, with significant remodelling in the early 17th century and later additions and alterations. It is timber framed with plaster and painted brick infill, and has a slate roof. The building's original layout developed from a seven-bay open-hall house, including a three-bay service wing to the east and a projecting cross-wing to the right. Early 17th-century remodelling involved flooring over the hall, constructing a porch on the site of the cross-passage, partially rebuilding the front gable of the cross-wing, and adding a two-bay range to the right.

The building is two storeys high with cellars. The timber framing is largely from the 17th century, but the hall range to the left of the porch retains original close studding on the first floor. The cross-wing also has close studding with middle rails and is jettied to the first floor and attic; the first-floor jetty is supported on a carved bracket. There is herringbone decoration above the tie beam to the gable. The close-studded porch has carved floral decoration to the attic bressumer, with square panels from the cill to the wall-plate, and two square panels to an additional porch on the right.

Most of the windows are modern casements, though some retain earlier features. Two casements are directly below the eaves to the left of the porch, one of which cuts through the position of an earlier infilled mullion window. A casement on the first floor of the porch has a gabled dormer to the right. The cross-wing has one casement on each floor, and the 17th-century addition has two windows on each floor. A single-storey lean-to addition in the angle between the porch and cross-wing is plastered to imitate timber framing.

The main entrance is through a two-storey porch with a moulded, cambered doorway and decorative carving to the spandrels, and a 20th-century ledged and nail-studded door. A subsidiary porch to the right has a half-glazed door. External brick end stacks are located to the left, and an internal end stack is located to the right, with a prominent brick stack in the roof slope of the cross-wing where it joins the hall range.

Inside, a close-studded screen wall to the left of the porch retains original paired Tudor-arched doorways to the service end, and the original external cambered arch to the cross-passage survives behind the porch. Chamfered ceiling beams and joists are present throughout, including a deep-chamfered cross beam ceiling to the former hall, which also has a partly rebuilt brick inglenook fireplace. There is 17th-century rectangular oak panelling in several rooms. The present kitchen displays a dragon beam for the front jetty of the cross-wing; in the 17th-century addition to the right, the original jettying to the former external long side is visible. Several late 17th or 18th-century panelled doors are also present.

The roof space of the hall range reveals a seven-bay roof with collar and tie beam trusses, some with V-struts from the collar; one truss in the service end has close studding right up to the apex. The remains of a moat, which formerly surrounded the house, are visible to the south and west.