Valley Farmhouse

Valley Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century, with significant alterations around 1600. It is timber-framed and has plaster walls, covered by a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house originally comprised four bays facing south, with a late 16th-century axial chimney stack positioned near the middle. A two-bay service wing from the 17th century adjoins the left side, with its own end chimney stack, and a full-height lean-to extension beyond, featuring a corrugated iron roof. The main house has two storeys and attics, while the service wing has one storey and an attic.

Around 1600, alterations created the appearance of two principal bays facing the front, separated by a short space mainly occupied by the chimney stack. The ground floor now has three 20th-century casement windows, along with a pair of early 19th-century sash windows of nine and twelve lights respectively. The first floor features one 19th-century casement in a gabled dormer of the service wing, a 19th-century horizontally sliding sash window of twelve lights, and another 20th-century casement. The attic gables contain two 19th-century casements. The interior reveals jowled posts and heavy studding with curved bracing trenched on the outside. The original floor at the right end has a chamfered beam with step stops, plain horizontal joists joined to it with unrefined soffit tenons. An inserted floor at the left end of the main house has a similarly chamfered beam and plain horizontal joists supported on pegged clamps. A blocked, unglazed window is visible in the rear wall at the right end, below the wall plate, with one diamond mullion still visible. The roof was largely rebuilt around 1600; the original wall plates were severed by large frieze windows at the back and front. The house has remained unusually unaltered since that time.