Brickwalls Farmhouse And Woodhall Barn

Brickwalls Farmhouse and Woodhall Barn date largely to the 17th century, with remodeling and extensions in the 18th century and alterations in the 19th century. The farmhouse is timber-framed with painted brick nogging, with areas rebuilt in brick and painted; it has clay plain tile roofs with gabled ends. A brick axial stack with yellow clay pots is a prominent feature.

The original farmhouse comprised a 3-room plan with an axial stack and back-to-back fireplaces, heating the central kitchen and parlour to the south, with the north room remaining unheated. In the 18th century, a 1-room plan range was built to the east, filling the space between the house and the attached barn.

The south front of the farmhouse is two storeys with two bays, displaying twin gables and a moulded platband at first floor level. It features 3-light casement windows with glazing bars, and a doorway on the ground floor. The west side has exposed timber framing and a doorway. The north gable end was rebuilt in brick in the 19th century. The east side incorporates a small 19th-century brick wing, a later outshut, and an 18th-century extension. A small 17th-century gable lights the staircase.

The parlour to the south has deeply chamfered cross-beams, lacking stops, and a late 19th-century chimneypiece. The kitchen has deeply chamfered cross-beams and a large brick fireplace with a chamfered timber bressumer with straight-cut stops. The smaller, unheated room to the north has a chamfered axial beam with long convex stops. The staircase beside the axial stack features a chamfered newel post, moulded plank balustrade, and a moulded rail. The farmhouse retains several 17th-century moulded plank doors, along with later plain plank doors. The attic chambers are ceiled. The roof structure incorporates tie-beam and collar trusses with queen-posts and V-struts, along with straight tension-braces.

Attached to the east side is a timber-framed barn with brick nogging, partially weatherboarded, and a corrugated-iron gabled roof. The barn retains much of its original wall framing, including jowled posts and, at the west end, a tie-beam and collar truss with queen-posts and V-struts. Later king-post trusses replace some of the original bracing. The barn has a stone flag floor.