Basmead Manor Farmhouse

Basmead Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was formerly a manor house, dating from the late 15th century to the 18th century. The building features a combination of timber framing with colour washed plaster infill and colour washed brick, topped with a clay tile roof. It consists of a hall and a cross-wing, with the hall having two storeys and the cross-wing also having two storeys and attics. The hall is three bays wide and sits on a rebuilt brick plinth. It includes two 19th-century canted bays and one two-light horizontal sash window on the ground floor, along with one round-headed fixed light and two sashes on the first floor, all featuring glazing bars. The front door is located to the west, leading into a hallway that may have originally served as the screens passage.

Inside, the open hall was divided into two floors in the 17th century and retains a crown post roof. The eastern solar features an 8-light watching window with partially restored wood tracery. The cross-wing has a projecting gable that was reconstructed in 1973-74. The oldest part of this section is likely from the mid-16th century, when it began to take over the hall's functions. The ground floor room in the cross-wing displays carved rosettes and mouldings on the beams, with one main post featuring an imitation shaft and capital, while others show signs of similar decoration. Brackets on one beam have spandrels carved with grotesque figures, foliage, and feathers. There are remains of a stone fireplace with roll moulding on the jamb, believed to be from the 12th century and reputedly imported from Bushmead Priory. A 17th-century brick addition is located at the rear of the cross-wing, which contains complete early 18th-century panelling in the first-floor room. Additionally, there is a late 18th-century two-storey addition within the rear angle and a lean-to addition to the east.