Stanton's Farmhouse

Stanton's Farmhouse is a house dating back to around 1300, with significant alterations and additions in the 15th, 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It was possibly built for Thomas de Stanton. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with some exposed timber framing visible. The roofs are red plain-tiled, with some diapering, and the roof to the hall (left) is half-hipped to the left with two gabled dormers. The right-hand cross wing has plaster to the 15th-century gable apex and is hipped to a 20th-century front extension. There are two red brick chimney stacks to the left and one to the right. The left side is one storey high, while the right-hand cross wing is two storeys high with a single-storey 20th-century front extension. The window arrangement is 2:3:1, with mainly 20th-century leaded casements; the hall dormers have 19th-century style 2-light casements with centre transoms. There is a vertically boarded door to each range.

The 15th/17th-century cross wing features an inglenook fireplace with a mantel beam over, centre tenons to the floor joists, halved and bridled joints, and halved and bladed top plate scarfs. The floor is brick. There are two good cast iron Victorian fireplaces on the first floor. The large hall, originally 2 bays and designed in the “grand manner,” is open to the roof with a floored service bay and a chamber above. This bay exhibits arch bracing between the hall and passing braces, which are slightly curved. Three original doorways remain, and a fragment of a fourth is at the north end; two of these doorways have original 2-centred arches and moulded sunken circles with carved quatrefoils to the spandrels. Fragments of a heavy moulded ashlar plate, with quadrants, fillets, and visible peg holes, are still in situ.

Originally, a semi-octagonal oriel projected from the north-west bay, supported by curved braces from the main frame. Large octagonal columns with capitals of two superimposed scroll orders support the cambered, hollow-chamfered tie beams. Arched, moulded braces spring from the columns, forming 2-centred arches, and similar braces support the hollow-chamfered top plates. Ashlar pieces, soulaces, and collars are present on each rafter pair. The original timber is sooted. A large, 15th-century inserted red brick inglenook fireplace incorporates a heavy, approximately 14 feet cambered mantel beam and an iron fireback to the hearth.