Eye Farmhouse

Eye Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, that likely dates back to the 14th or 15th century. It was remodeled in the late 16th century with later additions and alterations. The building is timber-framed with plaster infill on a brick plinth and features a plain tile roof. The original layout was probably a single-bay open hall with a smoke bay, a service bay to the south, and a solar to the north. It was converted to a lobby-entry plan, with a first floor and attic added and the roof restructured in the late 16th century.

The farmhouse is two stories high with a gable-lit attic. The framing consists of irregular square and rectangular panels, with 15 panels across and 2 from the girding beam to the wall-plate, short straight tension braces, and close-set vertical posts below. There are long straight tension braces and V-struts from the collars to the gable ends. The windows show irregular fenestration, with late 20th-century casements on each floor to the left and right of a 17th-century nail-studded door located to the left of center. The roof slope at the rear has four late 20th-century raking eaves dormers. A prominent red brick ridge stack with twin diagonal shafts is situated immediately above the doorway, along with another stack in the roof slope to the right, which is a 19th-century imitation. There is also a plank and muntin door at the rear and a late 19th-century painted brick addition set back to the left.

Inside, the farmhouse has been substantially restored in the late 20th century, with the timber frame exposed throughout, showcasing square panels and close-set vertical posts. The main ground-floor room, which was the former hall, features a deep-chamfered cross beam ceiling with heavy joists and ogee stops. There are inglenook fireplaces with chamfered wooden lintels and an infilled Tudor-arch doorway on the ground floor between the former hall and solar, as well as two on the first floor at the junction between the left-hand truss of the hall and the chimney bay. The late 16th-century Queen-strut roof consists of five bays with double purlins and straight windbraces, and the jowled wall-posts of the chimney bay have been cut through to allow for the insertion of the attic.