Cresley'S Farmhouse

Cresley's Farmhouse is an early 17th-century house that has been extended in the 20th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The house has four bays facing southwest, featuring an axial stack in the second bay from the right end and a partly external stack at the left end. There is a long 20th-century wing at the back of the left end, which connects the house to an 18th or 19th-century ancillary building, along with a 20th-century extension in the eastern angle that has a rear jetty.

The farmhouse is two storeys tall, with three 20th-century casements on the ground floor, four on the first floor, and two in gabled dormers. A 20th-century door is located at the front of a gabled porch. Both stacks feature ovolo-moulded cornices, with the main stack having four grouped octagonal shafts and the left stack having two. The building has jowled posts, heavy studding with primary straight bracing, and chamfered axial beams in all rooms on both storeys. Most beams have lamb's tongue stops, except for the right ground floor room, which has lamb's tongues and additional notches. The plain joists are of vertical section.

On the ground floor, the left stack contains a 20th-century grate, while the main stack features a wide wood-burning hearth with a brick depressed arch facing left and a smaller, similar hearth facing right, which has been reduced for a 20th-century grate. On the first floor, both hearths of the main stack have brick depressed arches; the left one has an early 19th-century cast iron grate, and the right one is reduced for a 20th-century grate. Additionally, there is a small cupboard facing forwards on the first floor in the same stack, which has the original plain door for storing spices, gunpowder, and other items. The farmhouse retains its original clasped purlin roof.