Home Farmhouse

Home Farmhouse is a mid-18th century house, originally a farmhouse, with alterations and additions dating to the 19th century and around 1911. It is constructed of coursed limestone with ashlar and moulded stone dressings, and has collyweston stone slated roofs, hipped to the west and south. Parapet gables, an ashlar end stack, and two ridge stacks are present. A moulded stone cornice runs along the top of the facade. The house is two storeys high with attics and a service basement at ground floor level to the rear. The original house comprised five bays, to which a three-bay wing has been added, creating an L-shaped plan. A gabled entrance porch, dated 1863, has imposts to a round-headed arched doorway. There are four recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows on the ground floor and five on the first floor, each with plain architraves and raised keystones. A plain band runs between the floors, and ashlar quoins define the corners. Three hipped dormer windows contain casements. A two-storey addition to the west gable features a single bay with mullioned windows on both floors.

The interior includes an 18th century staircase leading to attic and basement floors, with revised moulded ceiling beams and 19th century doors. The farmhouse was rebuilt by the Duke of Bedford on the site of the former hunting lodge of the 1st Lord Russell Baron of Thornhaugh, as illustrated in a drawing dated July 1721.