Home Farmhouse

Home Farmhouse is a timber-framed house, originally built in 1555 for John Fuller and enlarged around 1660. It is located on The Green in Foxton. The house is part timber frame, with some exposed and rendered sections, and stands on a brick plinth. It has tiled roofs, with a gablet to the north-east end. A red brick ridge stack sits between the front and rear ranges, featuring four diagonally set grouped shafts on a square base. A further external red brick stack with offsets is located at the west end of the front range. The building comprises two ranges forming an L-plan.

The front range has two storeys, with the first floor jettied. A fascia board conceals the jetty beam, and the joists are carried on shaped brackets. There are three windows at first floor, including one original opening with a moulded mullion. Other windows are small-pane casements, and further original windows were revealed in 1984 but have since been concealed. The first-floor framing is of close studding with uniform scantling, mirrored in the gable of the west end. The rear range is similarly framed, rendered and tiled, with its first floor also jettied on the west side. Another fascia board, of a similar style and date, obscures the jetty beam, but brackets are not visible. At ground floor, there is one window with diamond mullions, possibly reset, and a plank and batten door dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, retaining original iron furniture.

Inside the front range, which consists of three bays, the ground floor is divided into two rooms by an original framed partition wall. The ceiling has stop-chamfered joists laid flat, and there is an inglenook hearth. The smaller room at the north end of the ground floor is lined with reset early 17th-century sunk panelling, decorated with foliate bosses and strapwork pilasters. An original screen, formerly separating this room from the rear range, is partially obscured by later 17th-century tile panelling but remains visible on one side, and exhibits plank and muntin construction pegged to rails at ceiling and floor height. A doorway originally linked the rear range to this parlour. The first floor was likely open to the roof, with a partition wall extending upwards. The roof structure is of clasped side purlin construction, with long wind braces and Queen struts. The roof timber is consistent in scantling with wall framing, and heavier and more uniform than in the rear range. The ground floor of the rear range has joists laid on edge with unmoulded main beams, and a blocked inglenook hearth. The first floor has a lintel over the hearth. The roof framing is of a lighter scantling and is of a similar side purlin type with straight wind braces.