Betton Strange Farmhouse

Betton Strange Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-18th century, incorporating parts of what is likely a 16th or 17th-century house, with later alterations and additions from the late 19th and late 20th centuries. The building is constructed of red brick with a timber-framed core and features plain tile roofs that are hipped to the east. It has an L-plan layout, with an 18th-century range and a remodelled flush gabled cross-wing to the east.

The farmhouse has two storeys and a gable-lit attic. The south front displays two plat bands and a low-stepped parapeted gable end to the left, with an integral brick end stack. There is an integral brick lateral stack at the front right and another at the rear, along with integral brick end stacks on the cross-wing, which is truncated at the rear. The front has three windows; the first floor features three-light wooden casements, with late 19th-century windows to the right that have depressed relieving arches and late 20th-century windows to the left. Between the first and second windows from the left, there is a late 19th-century gabled brick former porch, which has a 2-light segmental-headed casement at the front and a 20th-century casement replacing the former doorway in the right-hand return front. There is also a 20th-century half-glazed door to the left. The cross-wing has a plat band and segmental-headed blind windows on each floor, with a 20th-century casement to the right on the first floor and another 20th-century casement to the left on the ground floor. A 20th-century addition is located at the rear of the 18th-century range.

Inside, the 18th-century roof features collar and tie-beam trusses with pairs of staggered purlins. The former external lateral stack of the cross-wing, dating from the late 16th or 17th century, is now enclosed within the 18th-century roof and consists of two star-shaped shafts with oversailing tops. The first floor reveals exposed framing of the former external wall of the cross-wing, which includes square panels and angle braces, as well as chamfered and stopped beams and an early 18th-century corner fireplace.