Avenue Farmhouse

Avenue Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 14th or 15th century, with a significant addition made in the mid-18th century and further alterations and additions in the early and late 19th century. The building features a timber frame of cruck construction, which has mostly been rebuilt and extended in red brick, sitting on a red sandstone plinth. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and have two spans over the later additions.

The farmhouse has an irregular L-plan layout, consisting of two framed bays with large additions to the east. The west range is a single storey with an integral brick end stack on the left side. On the left, there is a 20th-century four-light casement window, and on the right, a 19th-century two-light casement window. The right-hand block is two storeys high, with an attic. It features a chamfered plinth on the right side, plat bands on the east front, and stone-coped parapeted gable ends. There are two integral brick stacks on the west side and a large brick stack off-ridge on the east side.

The front has two gables, with the right part projecting. This section includes a first-floor horned glazing bar sash and a ground-floor tiled-roof bow with a triple glazing bar sash. There is also a fire insurance plate on the right-hand return front. The right-hand part is set back and features two segmental-headed four-pane sashes on the attic and first floor, along with a ground-floor 19th-century flat-topped bow to the right with a horned tripartite glazing bar sash. An early 19th-century brick porch is located on the left, complete with a moulded plaster cornice, blocking course, and a six-panelled door (with the top three panels glazed), along with a likely early 19th-century lattice wooden porch topped with an ogee lead canopy.

The east front has three bays with segmental-headed four-pane sashes, with painted imitations in the left-hand bays. The central entrance features a half-glazed door with a rectangular overlight, and there is a 20th-century conservatory attached to the left side.

Inside, there is a large full cruck truss in the west range, which has peg holes indicating former arch bracing, a later tie-beam, and an Alcock apex-type A. The roof structure includes single purlins and windbraces. The mid-18th-century staircase in the eastern block has turned balusters and a moulded handrail.