Home Farmhouse

Home Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, with a core dating to an earlier period. It is situated in Ashford Carbonell. The building exhibits a mix of construction techniques, including early date brick, rubble plinth to the front and one gable, coursed stone rubble to another gable, and a partly timber-framed, partly brick rear wall. The roof is covered with plain tiles, featuring a single coped gable and another without coping. A projecting 17th-century brick gable-end stack is present, featuring an ornamental cap and spurred shafts rising from a cogged string course. An integral brick chimney shaft is within the parapeted opposite gable. The original plan was three cells, later expanded with a rear extension.

The front elevation, facing the garden, is a three-window range. A first-floor window to the right has two stone mullions with a stone stepped hoodmould and three leaded lights. The centre first-floor window is a single casement, and the left first-floor window is a 3/3 sash. At ground level, there are two 3/3 sashes; one has a timber lintel and the other a segmental arch. A plain oak door is set within a segmental arch. A 20th-century slate-roofed projecting porch has been added. The right gable-end return features two first-floor and one ground-floor windows; these are stone mullion windows with stone hoodmoulds set over brick lintels, incorporating lattice-leaded lights to the first floor and a 20th-century casement to the ground floor. There are two single-light stone windows in the attic. The left gable-end return features a 20th-century conservatory extension against the stone gable.

The rear elevation includes a single-storey, tiled and gabled stone extension that covers most of the brick wall to the left half, with a casement at first-floor level to the left. To the right is a single bay of timber framing, featuring rectangular panels, a sill plate, a girding beam, jowled posts, studs with mid rails, all set on a brick and stone plinth. This section has 2-light casements on each storey, alongside a tall multi-pane casement to the first-floor centre. The interior of the property was not inspected as part of the listing process. The property was known as Seedfield until 1976, reverting to Home Farmhouse in 1993.