Maxstoke Hall Farmhouse

Maxstoke Hall Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1632 and the mid-18th century. It features a timber frame that has been cased or rebuilt in red brick. The roof is plain-tiled with a gable design, a dentil cornice, and a red brick ridge stack. The building has a double-ended hall house plan, with a two-storey main range from the mid-18th century. It has segmental arches over three first-floor cross-frame casements from the 19th century, and a doorway leading to a former cross-passage that is away from the hearth.

The west cross-wing serves as a parlour wing, also dating from the mid-18th century, constructed in red brick and two storeys high, featuring saw-tooth corbelling at the eaves. Each storey has a similar 19th-century cross-frame casement. The east cross-wing, which dates from around 1632 and the mid-18th century, is timber-framed and cased or rebuilt in red brick, with a sandstone plinth and two storeys. It has a similar 19th-century wood casement on both the first and ground floors.

Inside, the east cross-wing consists of two bays and includes wind bracing in the through-purlin roof, a cheese room with a plaster floor, and braced tie beams, with peg-holes visible in the wall plate. There is a mid-18th-century staircase featuring a closed string with column balusters, a moulded rail, and a square newel leading to a single flight and landing. The mid-18th-century parts of the house have slender ceiling timbers. The farmhouse is reputed to date back to 1632.