Pumphouse Farmhouse

Farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century, with alterations and extensions circa 1700, the mid-19th century, and the mid-20th century. It is partly timber-framed with painted brick infill, and partly brick (some handmade) with sandstone dressings; it has plain tiled roofs, with a hipped north wing. The original plan was likely a hall and cross-wing configuration. The cross-wing, of two framed bays, runs north/south and features two external chimneys on the west elevation. One chimney is of dressed sandstone with paired 19th-century diagonal brick shafts, while the other is entirely 19th-century brick. The hall has been replaced by a largely 19th-century, L-shaped addition that runs parallel to the cross-wing, comprising three bays with a two-bay east return. A large sandstone chimney with a brick ridge stack stands at the junction of the returns. The farmhouse has two storeys, an attic with a dormer, and a cellar. The timber framing on the south elevation displays large square panels from the sill to the girding beam, and smaller square panels from the girding beam to the wall plate. A collar and tie-beam truss is found at the south gable end, with two collars and five struts to the lower collar, three to the upper collar, and a concave-sided V-strut in the apex. The north gable end has been rebuilt in brick. The south-facing timber-framed gable end has a 20th-century glazed lean-to addition at ground-floor level. It also contains a 3-light first-floor casement and an attic light. An adjacent 19th-century gable end features a ground-floor 2-light window and a 3-light casement, the former with a cambered head, set within a blocked doorway with a pointed-arched hood mould. Above the doorway is a 3-light casement with a cambered head and a brick stack. A 20th-century single-storey wing adjoins to the right. The north elevation of the east return shows sandstone quoins, a 3-light and a 4-light stone splayed-mullioned ground-floor window, two first-floor 3-light casements with cambered heads, a hipped roof dormer with a 3-light casement, and a large blocked doorway with sandstone quoins and lintel with an inserted 20th-century door. Inside the timber-framed wing, the east side elevation has a close-studded appearance and a 5-light wood-mullioned window to the south bay. The house was once part of the Vernon Estate.