Linstead Farm Cottages

Linstead Farm Cottages, consisting of No. 1, 2, and 3, is a former farmhouse that was later converted into farm cottages. The building dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century and was refronted and refenestrated in the late 19th century, with an additional end bay added to No. 3 during this time. It is timber-framed, with the front elevation refronted in stock brick and pebbledash on the first floor. The roof is tiled, featuring a central original chimneystack and three other likely 19th-century external chimneystacks.

The plan suggests it was originally a two-bay lobby entrance house with a crosswing to the left. The structure has two storeys and irregular fenestration, primarily consisting of later 19th-century casements. The front elevation displays a stock brick ground floor and a pebbledashed first floor, with part of a curved windbrace visible through a break in the render, as well as part of a bressummer that appears to run the length of the building. It is likely that more of the first-floor wall-frame remains behind the render. No. 2 features a penticed tiled porch. The left side elevation is entirely refronted in stock brick, with two 19th-century casements and a left side plank door with an adjoining sidelight, both set under segmental arches. The rear elevation is also fully refronted in stock brick and includes a 19th-century brick and 20th-century pebbledashed lean-to.

Inside, No. 1 has a front room with a late 19th-century cast iron firegrate and 19th-century plank doors, with the original wooden bressummer visible. The rear room contains an early 17th-century chamfered axial beam and floor joists, along with a straight flight 19th-century staircase. No. 2 features a late 16th-century or early 17th-century axial beam with a lambs tongue stop and a two-inch chamfer, as well as a chamfered cross beam and an open fireplace. No. 3 has a similar axial beam in the ground floor room and upright posts, with 19th-century joinery and a 1930s fireplace, although it likely conceals an open fireplace behind it. A recent photograph shows a jowled upright post, the top of the wallplate, a tie beam, and a queenpost roof with principal rafters.