Old Town Farmhouse

Old Town Farmhouse is a former farmhouse with origins dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, significantly altered in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and again in the mid to late 19th century. The construction is of regular coursed ironstone, with patches of brick, and concrete tile roofs. The right range exhibits traces of timber framing, refaced or rebuilt in late 18th/early 19th century Flemish bond red brick. Earlier 17th century English bond thin red brick is visible on the garden front and rear, alongside lias patching to the rear. The building has an irregular four-unit plan. It is two storeys and an attic, with a three-window front facing the garden. The right range has a moulded six-panelled door with a multi-paned overlight. Ground floor windows are wood and iron mullioned and transomed, while first-floor casements have horizontal glazing bars. The ground floor openings are topped with brick segmental arches, and the first floor has painted wood lintels. A timber post is located on the left side. Behind this is old brickwork with stone quoins, and a blocked first-floor chamfered stone single light. Dormers on the roof have horizontal glazing bars. A 16th/early 17th century stack features three diagonally-set square shafts. The left range is taller. Mid/late 19th century cross windows are present on the right, also with horizontal glazing bars and brick segmental arches, along with two 20th century ground floor windows. The left return side is similar, incorporating a main entrance with a stable door and cross windows. A blocked attic window is also present. The right return side mostly dates to the mid/late 19th century and incorporates a full-height staircase window, 2-light casements with glazing bars, and chamfered block surrounds. The rear is irregular, with a one-storey and attic left range having a plank door and a 2-light leaded casement. A half-dormer is present. A 19th-century brick arch frames a recessed Tudor-arched six-panelled door. A staircase projection on the right features a small 2-light chamfered mullioned window and string course, alongside a 19th-century cross window. The right return side has a brick arched recess and a chamfered first floor light. The interior retains two open fireplaces, chamfered ceiling beams, a 19th-century ring-leg staircase in the staircase projection, and remains of a stud partition.