The Clock House (Formerly Twatling Farm)

The Clock House, formerly Twatling Farm, is a house dating back to the 17th century, with substantial remodelling and extension in 1913 by C.E. Bateman. It is constructed of timber frame with brick noggin, and brick, with a clay plain tile roof and gabled ends. A brick axial stack is present.

The original house was a two-room plan, arranged in a north-western range, with a central axial stack containing back-to-back fireplaces and a lobby entrance with a porch. The 1913 remodelling included the addition of a south-eastern wing, incorporating an existing outbuilding to the front and a barn to the rear. The work was carried out in a Vernacular Revival style.

The north-western range is one storey and attic, with a symmetrical three-window north-eastern front. A gabled timber-framed two-storey porch, now containing a stair, has a blocked doorway and a three-light casement above. A similar window is located in the brick ground floor to the left, with timber framing above and tension braces. A rebuilt brick wall to the right of the porch has a two-light casement and a gabled dormer above. The projecting south-eastern wing is timber-framed with a brick ground floor, featuring two gables, four and five-light wooden mullion ground floor windows and three-light first floor windows, all with leaded pane casements. A doorway on the right has a glazed plank door. The north-east end of the wing is set onto stone corbels on the first floor, with a jetty continuing into the first floor of the range to the left. The rear, south-western side has brickwork, two gabled dormers, and a parallel brick range (a remodelled barn) projecting to the right (south-west), with two large five-light mullion-transom windows. On the south-eastern side, facing a small courtyard, is a loggia with timber posts supporting a roughcast first floor, featuring a five-light window under the eaves.

The interior of the original north-western range retains two rooms heated by large back-to-back fireplaces in the central axial stack, with sandstone jambs and chamfered timber bressumers with hollow step stops. Chamfered ceiling beams and exposed joists are also present. Features of the 1913 remodelling include fireplaces, moulded plank doors, staircases, and a first-floor corridor over the loggia with a segmental vaulted plaster ceiling. Exposed timber framing and tie-beam roof structures are visible in the outbuildings incorporated into the remodelled house.