Home Farmhouse

Home Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with its eaves raised in the late 18th century and later additions and alterations. It is timber framed with painted brick infill and a plinth, topped by a slate roof. The original layout features a two-room baffle-entry plan, with a short 19th-century gabled addition to the rear on the left. The building has two storeys. The framing consists of rectangular panels, with three panels from the cill to the original wall-plate, more closely set posts, and a short straight tension brace on the left. Above the original wall-plate, there is one square panel extending to the eaves. The original steep roof pitch is visible, along with the position of an infilled window and V-struts from the collar on the left gable end. The early 20th-century multi-paned casements, one on each floor, are located on either side of a four-panel door (with the top panels now glazed) beneath a gabled hood. A tall 19th-century red brick ridge stack with recessed panels is situated immediately to the left of the entrance. Inside, there is a massive central stack with infilled inglenook fireplaces in the ground-floor rooms. The left room features large deep-chamfered spine beams with straight-cut stops.