Headways Farmhouse

Headways Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the early 18th century, which is a virtual rebuilding of a house from the 17th century. The front wall was rebuilt in the late 19th century. The building features English bond painted brick, with the front wall made of large bricks in Flemish bond and bands of blue bricks. The rear gable has exposed timber framing, and the roof is slate with gabled ends, while the rear wing has a plain tile roof. There is a brick lateral stack at the rear.

The farmhouse has a two-room plan in the front range with a central entrance passage. The left room serves as the original kitchen, featuring a large fireplace in the rear lateral stack. The right room is the parlour, which has a short wing behind it containing the staircase. Behind this wing is a lower storey and attic wing from the earlier house, now used as a pantry and dairy. Additionally, there is a single-storey kitchen wing behind the left room, which is a late 19th-century addition.

The exterior is two storeys with an attic and presents a symmetrical three-window west front. It has large late 19th-century twelve-pane sash windows in segmental openings, with a smaller round arch eight-pane sash window in the centre of the first floor. The central doorway features a flush panel door and a 20th-century glazed porch. The gable ends have cross-mullion transom windows on the ground floor and small attic windows. The rear east side includes a tall but short timber-framed gabled wing on the left and lateral stacks on the right, along with a lower one-storey and attic wing on the left and a single-storey wing on the right.

Inside, the 18th-century features are largely intact. There are fielded panel and plank doors, as well as a good open-well staircase with a moulded string, moulded handrail, turned balusters, and square newels. The left room has a large brick fireplace with a cambered chamfered timber lintel and long hollow step stops. The larder displays some exposed timber framing and two chamfered axial beams with hollow step stops, while the dairy behind has chamfered cross-beams with cyma stops and exposed unchamfered joists. The partition wall above shows exposed timber framing, and there is an 18th-century fireplace in the front left chamber. The attic is ceiled, but the roof structure over the main range appears to be from the 18th century.