29 and 30, Kempton

This is a farmhouse, originally built in the early to mid-17th century and later divided into two cottages. It has since been reunited into a single dwelling. The building is timber framed with rendered and painted brick infill, and has a machine tile roof. It is arranged in an L-shape, with a two-bay hall range and a probable earlier two-bay cross-wing projecting to the right. A 20th-century addition is located to the left of the hall range.

The hall range is single-storey with an attic, while the cross-wing is two storeys high. The timber framing consists of square and rectangular panels, three from the cill to the wall-plate. Some of the infill to the hall range has been replaced with painted black and white brick. The cross-wing features a moulded, hewn jetty to the gable, and square and rectangular panels on the ground floor, with vertical posts on the first floor. Inside the cross-wing, a collar and tie beam end truss has a king-strut. A long wall has three square panels from the cill to the wall-plate. A 19th-century king-post truss is in the gable. The rear elevation exhibits close-set vertical posts with two middle rails and square panels extending from the cill to the wall-plate. A timber-framed, gabled dormer on the right side is jettied at the gable and wall-plate level, features plain 19th-century bressumers, and retains original carved corner brackets. The front has an irregular arrangement of windows: two late-20th-century casements in the extension and two to the right of a 20th-century door, which lies beneath a contemporary open lean-to porch with a raking eaves dormer above. The cross-wing has a 19th-century casement to the first floor and a small fixed-light window on the ground floor. A large stone ridge stack with a moulded dripstone and capping sits to the right of the hall range, at the junction with the cross-wing, indicating it was widened when the hall range was added.

Inside the main ground-floor room of the hall range are deep-chamfered cross beams and heavy joists. It features a stone inglenook fireplace with chamfered jambs and a chamfered wooden lintel, wide-boarded oak floorboards, and a central collar and tie beam truss, partly visible on the first floor. The cross-wing similarly has deep-chamfered cross beams and heavy joists on the ground floor, another stone inglenook fireplace (damaged), and a stone flag floor. There’s an infilled doorway to the left of the outside wall. A collar and tie beam truss with wattle and daub infill was exposed during a resurvey in August 1986. At the time of the resurvey, the lower courses of stone walls of a rectangular building, running parallel with the hall range and in the angle with the cross-wing, were uncovered by the owner. This building has a stone-flag floor, set at a lower level than the one in the cross-wing, and appears to have had access through a blocked doorway in the cross-wing. A stone shelf suggests it may have been a step-down lean-to dairy. The 20th-century timber-framed addition to the left of the hall range is not considered to be of architectural importance.