Fox And Pheasant Farmhouse

Fox and Pheasant Farmhouse is a house that dates from the late medieval period and the mid-16th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The structure includes one surviving bay from a late medieval hall house facing south, with a mid-16th century extension of one short bay to the right. To the left, there is a mid-16th century long-jetty house consisting of three long bays and one short bay, featuring a late 16th century brick stack in the second bay from the right. An 18th century external stack is located at the left end, accompanied by a small lean-to extension in front of it. The farmhouse has a single-storey rear extension, possibly a converted outbuilding, forming an irregular T-plan.

The building is one storey with attics and two storeys overall. On the ground floor, there are two splayed bays of 20th century casements under the long jetty, along with one additional 20th century casement. The first floor features three 20th century casements and two 19th century casements. A half-glazed door is set in a 20th century flat-roofed porch supported by octagonal posts. The roof has a gablet hip at the left end.

Architectural details include jowled posts, close studding with straight and curved 'Suffolk' bracing that is trenched inside, chamfered axial beams without stops, and chamfered joists of horizontal section that are exposed in the short entrance bay at the right end of the long-jetty house. All main framing members and joists have unusual chamfer-stops, which are similar to step stops but with the corners cut back. The late medieval bay features a crownpost roof with axial bracing and barefaced lap-dovetail collars that are unsooted. The long-jetty house also has a crownpost roof with axial bracing, an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the collar-purlin, down-bracing to the cambered tiebeam, and some smoke-blackened reused rafters in the hip. Original partitions made of plastered wattle and daub are present, along with numerous unglazed windows that have shutter grooves, most of which are blocked.

Inside, there is an early 19th century winder stair with stick balusters and an early 19th century fireplace at the left end, which features plaster moulding in high relief depicting a hare, a deer, a bird, and several hounds.