Hermitage Farmhouse

Hermitage Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, with partial remodelling in the mid-18th century and further alterations and additions in the mid to late 19th century. The building is timber framed with painted brick nogging, and it has been refaced in painted 18th-century brick on the west side, with parts underbuilt and extended in painted 19th-century brick. The roofs are covered in plain tiles.

The framing features square panels and closely spaced uprights beneath the first-floor window, forming an L-plan layout. It consists of one framed bay with a flush gabled cross wing to the west of two framed bays. The farmhouse is two storeys high. The south front, which is at right angles to the road, has a central brick ridge stack and an external brick end stack to the right. The cross wing gables are adorned with 19th-century scalloped barge boards and finials.

There are two windows, which are 19th and 20th-century two- and three-light wooden casements. The central entrance features a 20th-century boarded door and a 19th-century gabled wooden porch with scalloped barge boards and a finial. An exposed truss in the left-hand gable has two collars and queen struts, and there is a Salop fire insurance plate above the left-hand first-floor window.

To the right, there are 19th-century additions that include a dentil brick eaves cornice and sash windows. The left-hand return front, or west side, shows 18th-century refacing with three bays, featuring horizontal-sliding glazing bar sashes with segmental heads. The central ground floor window has been replaced with a late 20th-century wooden casement, while there are blind windows in the left-hand bay and on the ground floor to the right. Lean-to additions are present in the angle at the rear, where the rear gable displays an exposed collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts. The interior has not been inspected.