The Coates and Associated Barns

A box-framed farmhouse dating from the late C15 and altered in the C17, with associated barns thought to date from the C16 and later.

MATERIALS: the farmhouse is timber framed on a stone plinth with areas of brick cladding and tile roofs. The barns are also timber framed with weatherboarded elevations.

PLAN: The house has a hall and cross-wing plan; the hall is orientated roughly north-south, with the screens passage at the northern end and the C17 cross-wing beyond that with the former detached kitchen now attached.

The barns stand approximately 30 metres to the south-west of the house, and form a wide V-shape with projecting wings to the south.

EXTERIOR: the house is of two storeys with much exposed close-studded timber framing above a stone plinth, which was installed around 1970. The left-hand gable denotes the cross-wing which has a large external chimney stack, and what appears to be a modern bay window at ground-floor level with three-light window above. To the right, the two-storey porch has a small gable and contains the main entrance. The hall range beyond this is encased in brick, this thought to have been added in the 1950s, and has a bay window at ground-floor level and a dormer window above.

The rear elevation is thought to be further close-studded timber framing with irregular fenestration. It appears to have a door marking the opposite end of the screens passage and a gable at the rear of the cross-wing. The former detached kitchen has a gable to the northern end.

INTERIOR: It is understood that the former hall has been subdivided and now forms two rooms, with inserted chequerboard ceilings. It is also understood to retain a central truss with arch-braces with cavetto mouldings which reach past the wall-plate, and a mostly intact spere-truss over the screen. The roof over the hall and passage is understood to be intact, with evidence showing the position of the original louvre opening.

The associated BARNS are thought to retain their queen-post roof structure with chamfered tie beams. They are shown in much their current form on the tithe map of 1840 and subsequent historic Ordnance Survey maps. There are three projecting wings to the south; the westernmost appears to have been rebuilt in modern times and is not included in the listing. The central and eastern appear to match their historic form.