Yarhampton House

Yarhampton House is a former farmhouse, now a house, dated 1610 and restored in the 20th century. It features a timber-framed structure with part painted brick on the ground floor, painted brick, and lath and plaster infill, topped with tiled roofs. The building has a central floored hall of two bays, flanked by projecting wings of three bays each. The entrance is located to the right of the center, and there are external stacks—two on the right wing and two on the left wing, with one at the gable end.

The house is two storeys with attics and has two-light leaded casements, one in each gable and in a gabled dormer above the porch. The first floor includes a renewed three-light mullioned and transomed oriel window supported by carved decorative brackets, with the left end bracket bearing a date. There is a similar window above the porch and a five-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window in the right wing, also supported by carved decorative brackets. The ground floor of the left wing has a 19th-century three-light window with a cambered head. The central block projects on the ground floor with a lean-to roof and gabled porch, featuring a three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window to the left of the entrance, which has a 20th-century glazed door. The right wing has a renewed four-light mullioned and transomed window. The fenestration is leaded throughout, with some renewals. The right wing shows traces of other blocked window openings, and the upper external stack of the right wing has three conjoined star-plan shafts.

The rear of the left wing is partly obscured by a late 18th-century brick extension, while the rear of the right wing has a garage insertion. The framing features close-studding with a mid-rail on the ground floor, three panels above with diagonal bracing, and V-struts in the gables. Inside, there is a fine cross-beamed ceiling and a stone flagged floor in the hall, with the former external wall removed when the forward projecting lean-to with porch was added, now supported by two 19th-century cast iron piers. The interior also includes a 17th-century oak framed newel staircase with twisted balusters, complete from the ground to the first floor. Yarhampton House is a good example of a large early 17th-century timber-framed farmhouse.