Frankton Farm Cottage Frankton Farmhouse

Frankton Farmhouse and Frankton Farm Cottage are a mid-to-late 17th-century farmhouse and cottage, significantly altered in later centuries. The farmhouse is timber-framed with rendered and painted brick infill, with the rear rebuilt in red brick during the early to mid-19th century. It has a slate roof. The building comprises a hall range of baffle-entry type, apparently in three framed bays, and a two-bay cross-wing slightly projecting to the right. The front of the hall range shows square framing panels, four from sill to wall-plate, with a short straight tension brace to the left corner; some framing has been renewed. A queen-strut truss with three vertical struts and raking struts from the tie beam to the principal rafters is visible in the left gable end, along with V-struts from the collar. The gable of the cross-wing is painted to imitate timbering, with the exception of the wall posts, principal rafters, and collar. The ridge has a red brick stack with paired and rebated shafts and a dentilled capping, while an internal stack, also with a dentilled capping, sits behind the ridge to the left. The cross-wing has 19th-century casements on each floor, a pointed finial, and 19th-century integral and external lateral stacks with dentilled capping. A 19th-century painted brick lean-to extends from the angle between the hall range and cross-wing, and another two-storey lean-to is attached to the left gable end. The rear of the hall range has two horizontal sliding sashes on each floor, with the ground floor sashes being segmental-headed and those on the first floor directly below the eaves. The gable has a segmental-headed horizontal sliding sash on each floor. Boarded doors are located at the far left and right of the hall range, the former under a 19th-century gabled trellised porch. Attached at right-angles from the right corner of the hall range is an early 19th-century two-storey brick range, designated Frankton Farm Cottage. This has a dentilled eaves cornice, a floor band, and a stack with dentilled capping in the bottom of the roof slope to the left. The interior was not accessible at the time of resurvey in February 1987, but is likely to be of interest and noted as being in the process of renovation.