Blythe Farmhouse

Blythe Farmhouse is a house dating from 1670, with initials SM possibly reset in the late render over the front door. The building features a timber frame, rendered exterior, and a tiled roof. It has a red brick ridge stack with four diagonally set linked shafts on a rectangular base. The house is designed in a T-plan with a later lean-to addition in the angle. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has two two-storey canted bays on either side of the baffle entry doorway, which features an early 19th-century flush panelled door. There is also a single-storey kitchen wing that is framed, rendered, and tiled. A later gabled stair turret and flanking lean-to are part of a domestic addition. The inglenook hearths are now blocked. In 1664, the house was owned by Stephen Apthorpe, and it is possible that one initial is missing or has been removed.