Otherton Farmhouse

Otherton Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the early 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the late 19th century. It features a timber-framed structure with painted brick infill, brick replacement walling, and some stone dressings. The roofs are tiled, and there is an external sandstone ashlar chimney with a rebuilt brick stack at the rear, as well as an external brick stack with tiled offsets on the front elevation.

The building has a hall and cross-wing type plan, consisting of a main range with three framed bays and a two-bay cross-wing. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a dentilled eaves cornice at the rear. The framing is exposed on the front gable end and side elevation of the cross-wing, featuring square panels with six from the sill to the wall-plate and long straight lower corner braces. The trusses include double collars with three queen struts beneath the lower collar, two queen struts to the upper collar, and V-struts in the apex.

On the front elevation, the main range has a late 19th-century outshut, which was formerly the dairy, located to the left of the two bays. This section includes a wood, square-mullioned window with metal bars. To the right of the outshut is the external brick stack, followed by a bowed bay with a multi-paned bow window. Above this bay is a hipped dormer with a casement window. The gable end of the cross-wing features a ground floor bay window with glazing bar sashes, a first floor casement, and an attic light. To the left of the bay window is a part-glazed late 19th-century door beneath a lean-to roof supported by three console-brackets.

Inside, the main range has raking-strut trusses, with the left end truss featuring knee-braces and single, trenched purlins. The cross-wing contains an interrupted tie-beam truss and double, trenched purlins. The main beams are stop-chamfered.