Colliers Oak Farmhouse

Colliers Oak Farmhouse is a house dating from 1587, with extensions added to the front in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber-frame structure with 20th-century render on a sandstone plinth. The roof is gabled and covered with plain tiles, topped by a ridge stack made of coursed and squared sandstone, which has three red brick shafts set diagonally. This stack is now external due to the demolition of the parlour end of the house around 1938. The west gable includes a projecting stack of coursed sandstone, also incised with the date, and has three similar red brick shafts.

Originally, the house had a plan of three units with a through-passage at the rear of the stack. It is one storey and has an attic, featuring two 19th-century gable dormers and three 20th-century wood casements on the ground floor. In the 18th and 19th centuries, a brick range was added to the front, which is rendered and has a plain-tiled roof, standing two storeys tall with two 20th-century casements on each floor.

Inside, the original openings to the through-passage remain, and there is an inglenook hearth on the ground floor, as well as a chamber hearth on the first floor with a depressed arch featuring cyma moulding on a high base. The interior showcases exposed timber-framing with substantial scantling wall framing, cambered tie beams with curved bracing, and jowled heads on the posts. The wall plate has short splayed scarf joints, and vertical Queen struts connect the tie beam to the collar and principal rafter. The roof has a through purlin structure. At the west end, the ground floor inglenook includes a sandstone aumbry in the side wall and a rebate for a door. Notably, the initials TSMS are made of pebbles in a partition wall of the roof, matching those found in the plinth of the stable block, which is dated 1611.