Piccott'S Farmhouse

Piccott’s Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse, with an earlier 17th-century rear wing and a late 18th-century service wing. 20th-century alterations have also been made. The farmhouse is timber-framed, rendered, and has a plain tile roof which is half-hipped, with gabled rear and service wings. Brick ridge and end stacks are present. The original 3-unit plan was extended in the late 18th century to create an L-shape. A rear right wing is two storeys high. The front of the house has a three-window range to the right, remodelled in the late 18th century with 4/12/4-pane tripartite sashes, and a late 18th-century six-panelled door with carved brackets supporting a hood. A 20th-century window is located to the far left, replacing a former dairy window. A lower, one-storey service range extends to the right and returns to the rear, incorporating a brewhouse range with a 19th-century plank door, a 3-light casement window, and a large external stack to the rear gable. The rear of the main range has late 19th-century 3-light casement windows, an outshut housing a staircase to the right, a jettied early 17th-century rear wing, and a 19th-century plank service door to the left.

Inside, the ground floor has stop-chamfered beams, and the first floor has chamfered tie beams. A room to the left of the centre has an ovolo-moulded lintel over the fireplace, flanked by cupboards. A late 18th-century bay to the left features a latticed door leading to a former ground-floor dairy. The service wing on the right has chamfered beams of light scantling, an open fireplace, a bread oven and a copper. The former brewhouse to the rear is open to the clasped purlin roof.