Withies Green Farmhouse

Withies Green Farmhouse is a timber-framed house dating approximately to 1580, with alterations and extensions in 1983. The ground storey is clad with red brick in stretcher bond; the upper storey is plastered, and the roof is covered with handmade red plain tiles. Originally, the house had four bays facing south, consisting of a short chimney bay, two long bays on either side of it, and a short cross-entry bay at the left end. Later extensions were added to the left and rear in 1983, along with a rebuilt two-storey porch also in 1983.

The house has two storeys and attics. The front features 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and four on the first floor, together with a 20th-century door within the porch. A central stack was rebuilt above the roof in the 20th century. The framing includes jowled posts, heavy studding with curved tension braces trenched to the inside, and a full-length underbuilt jetty to the front. Inside, there are chamfered transverse and axial beams, mainly with lamb's tongue stops, although step stops are present immediately to the left of the stack. The chamfered joists are mostly of horizontal section and also feature lamb's tongue stops, with some step stops. A studded partition separating the cross-entry and the left long bay was removed and later rebuilt. The interior retains a wide wood-burning hearth, with a rear jamb 0.33 metres wide containing an original cupboard recess, and a front jamb 0.23 metres wide. A smaller hearth is situated back-to-back with this one, both jambs measuring 0.33 metres wide. The frame is charred at the left end, a result of a fire around 1982 which also destroyed a building to the left of the farmhouse. A face-halved and bladed scarf is visible in the rear wallplate. An early 17th-century framed floor is located over the upper storey, featuring chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops and square-section joists. A shutter groove near the middle of the rear wallplate, likely for an unglazed window intended to ventilate open hearths – probably the location of the original stair – is present. The attic has rebated hardwood floorboards. The roof is a clasped-purlin construction with rafters of vertical section and collars at half-bay intervals. An unusual decorative curved bracing is evident in the right gable, reflecting a Midlands style of framing.