Pannels Ash Farmhouse

Pannels Ash Farmhouse is a house incorporating elements from the 13th, 14th, 16th and later centuries. It is timber framed, with plaster infill and a gabled red plain tile roof. The house has an "H" shaped layout with jettied and gabled cross-wings at the north and south ends. The front elevation has a window arrangement of 1:2:1, featuring various casement windows and two 19th-century canted ground floor bays. A later wing extends from the rear of the north end. An off-centre chimney stack is located on the flank of the south cross-wing.

At the core of the house is a two-bay open hall dating to the mid-14th century, exhibiting heavy timber framing, a cambered tie beam and remnants of arch bracing, along with attached shafts on the wall posts with moulded capitals. The roof above the hall is heavily sooted and octagonal, with a moulded base and capital, and 4 braces. Two original doorways are present, one featuring two heavy arched "berms", and the other with a wide arched head. A first floor was inserted into the hall in the late 16th century.

An early 16th-century chimney stack backs onto the former cross passage, originally designed to serve the full-height open hall. This chimney stack has a moulded mantel beam with a broad segmental brick arch above, enclosing blind tracery featuring cusped, cinquefoiled recesses decorated with both painted and terracotta elements, including the DeVere star, referencing the family who owned the property in the 16th century. A simple brick crenellated capping sits above the arch. The rear face of the stack, overlooking the cross passage, has simpler blind cusped recesses and painted imitation diapering. The south wing dates to the late 13th century, with heavy joists resting on the central bridging joist. There are a pair of service doors with two-centred heads, along with evidence of the original stair opening and door adjoining the rear of the frame. The walls of this wing feature heavy, very broad wall bracing to the front wall, and similar, slightly curved counter bracing to the south wall and service wall partition. The top plates show long splayed scarfs with under-squinted abutments and numerous face pegs. The roof in this area is a crown post roof with simple, slightly curved, thick longitudinal braces.

The north wing is partially constructed with very close 16th-century studding and has a dimple crown post roof.