Cart'S Farmhouse

Cart's Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with a 20th-century extension. It features a rendered timber frame with brick infill and has a two-span roof that is gabled at the front and hipped at the rear, covered in new tiles. The building has two brick axial stacks. The layout consists of a double depth plan with two front rooms on either side of a central entrance passage that leads to a staircase and smaller service rooms at the back, including a kitchen on the left and a dairy on the right. The axial stacks are positioned between the front and back rooms, with the left stack serving back-to-back fireplaces.

The exterior is two storeys high with an attic, although the attic windows have been blocked. The northeast front has twin gables and features two windows, with 20th-century two and three-light casements that include glazing bars; the left ground floor window is blocked. The central doorway has a segmental fanlight above a 20th-century door and is sheltered by a 20th-century open porch. Other elevations have 20th-century casements, with the southeast side featuring 20th-century bay windows and the rear and northwest sides having single-storey 20th-century extensions.

Inside, some timber framing is exposed. The right room has an unchamfered ceiling beam and a large brick fireplace with an unchamfered timber lintel, while the left room has a boxed-in ceiling beam and a 20th-century chimneypiece. The rear left room features a large chamfered ceiling beam. A notable feature is the good late 17th-century dog-leg staircase with a moulded string and rail, turned balusters, and square newels with caps; the second flight to the attic has stick balusters and a newel with a finial. The interior also includes old plank doors and some 19th-century joinery, including panelled doors. Originally, there were garrets in the attic, and the twin-span roof retains its collars, clasped purlins, and common rafter couples. The farmhouse is documented in an early 18th-century estate map located in the County Record Office.