Acton House Farmhouse And Former Cartshed Adjoining To South-West

Acton House is a farmhouse and former cartshed, now used as a garage, dating from the mid to late 17th century, with 19th-century additions and 20th-century alterations. The building features a rendered timber frame set on a coursed limestone rubble plinth, with some 20th-century planted timbers and additional coursed limestone rubble that is partially painted, topped with a slate roof. Originally a two or three-bay lobby-entrance type house, it was later extended to the southwest to create an L-shaped plan.

The framing consists of square panels with three panels up to the wall plate and short straight braces. The structure has two storeys and an attic, with a gabled dormer featuring a two-light casement on the southwest side. There is a brick ridge stack above a blocked door on the southeast and an integral coursed limestone end stack on the southwest.

On the southwest front, there are late 19th-century two and three-light wooden casements, transomed on the ground floor. To the left, there is a six-panelled door (with the top four panels glazed) framed by a moulded architrave, and a hipped 19th-century wooden lattice porch at the angle. The left-hand return front includes a small first-floor casement and a ground-floor 19th-century wooden mullioned and transomed window.

The northwest front has three windows featuring 20th-century metal casements, with a central half-glazed door and a 20th-century gabled glazed porch. The former cartshed and loft on the southeast front includes a first-floor two-light casement and a ground-floor casement to the right, a half-glazed door to the left, and a large 20th-century garage door at the far left. There is a boarded loft door in the gable end to the southwest and a lean-to at the rear.

Inside, the building features chamfered and stopped beams and joists, along with a timber-framed square-panelled partition in the former cartshed that includes a loft.