Home Farmhouse And Attached Former Malthouse

Home Farmhouse and attached former malthouse is a farmhouse dating to the 17th century, with alterations in the 19th century. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and dressed stone, with a steeply pitched, renewed tile roof featuring coped gables and brick end stacks, the left stack being renewed. The building has a 2-unit plan.

The exterior is two storeys, with a 2-window front and a lower, 3-window range to the left. The entrance to the left of centre has a 6-panel door, with a recessed-chamfered light to the right, both with leaded glazing, under timber lintels. The ground floor has two 3-light casements with leaded glazing under timber lintels, and the first floor has two 2-light leaded casements under timber lintels; signs of alteration to window openings are present, including internal evidence.

A range to the left has dressed stone on an ashlar plinth which extends beyond the current return. It features an entrance with a plank door, flanked by windows to each floor, with heavy wood frames, and two windows to the right, one originally an entrance. The right return has a later brick external stack that obscures blocked recessed-chamfered windows with labelmoulds; one has a scratched date, 1703, likely the date of blocking.

The rear elevation has dressed stone to the first floor. A blocked central entrance is flanked by recessed-chamfered-mullioned windows with labelmoulds, with a central single light and a 2-light window on the first floor. To the right, there is an entrance with a plank door and a 2-light casement to the right; the first floor has a 2-light mullioned window and a 2-light leaded casement.

The projecting, former malthouse has a half-hipped gable and a 19th-century slate-roofed lean-to outshut to the inner return, adjacent to the former first-floor entrance. It has two tiers of square openings to each return, some of which retain wood frames and catches for shutters; the end has a large inserted opening above a smaller opening.

The interior of the house reveals chamfered spine beams, including one to a room to the left, with stop-chamfers to one side, stop-chamfered joists, and a large fireplace with a cornice and side cupboard. A bread oven is located to the rear. Later additions include a staircase and partition walls. Roughly chamfered tie beams and principals are also present.

The malthouse has trusses with curved bases; the second floor remains, with chamfered beams and gypsum covering. At the end is a furnace and a coved brick structure supporting a drying floor with pierced tiles.

Historically, a maltster was recorded at the farm until the 1870s.