Goward'S Farmhouse

Goward's Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 15th century with alterations from the late 16th century. It is constructed of timber framing and plaster, topped with a plain tiled roof. A late 17th-century ridge stack is located to the right of the center, featuring sawtooth tiles and a moulded brick cornice, and there is a tarred brick plinth. The building has two storeys with attics and a three-unit plan that includes an original open hall and chambered end rooms.

On the north elevation, there is a 19th-century six-panelled door positioned in a lobby entry, framed by a moulded wooden architrave and a flat canopy supported by shaped brackets. The ground floor has three sixteen-paned hung sash windows, rebated for shutters, and there are three similar windows on the first floor.

Inside, the west room features a late 16th-century fireplace with leaf-stops on the mantel beam and leaf-stops on the replacement floor beams. There is a sealed late 16th-century ovolo mullioned window in the hall, which has an inserted floor and a large fireplace with a chamfered mantel beam. The exposed 15th-century frame shows some burnt marks, and the roof appears to have been reconstructed in the late 16th century as a side purlin wind-braced roof, reusing some 15th-century materials. The first-floor fireplace in the room to the west is made of brick with a four-centred arch, a cornice of bull-nosed bricks, and a plaster frieze painted with dots and crosses.