Newneys Farmhouse

Newneys Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century and early 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and weatherboarded, topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. At the northern end, there is a 2-bay crosswing from an early 15th-century hall house, of which the rest has been demolished. To the south, there is a 4-bay lobby entrance house from the early 17th century, which includes an axial stack in the second bay from the north end. The farmhouse has 20th-century lean-to conservatories at both ends and stands two storeys tall.

On the west elevation, there is a two-window range of mid-19th century sashes with marginal lights, and a 20th-century door set in a simple flat-roofed porch. The roof of the crosswing has been completely rebuilt as a hip to the larger house. The crosswing remains largely unaltered up to the roof level, with minor charring on the central tiebeam indicating that the original roof was destroyed by fire. It features jowled posts, heavy studding with curved tension braces that are trenched to the outside, and original wattle and daub infill with a patterned surface that is complete in the upper north wall and almost complete in the upper south wall. There are wide arched braces to the binding beam and to the cambered central tiebeam, with plain joists of horizontal section sawn off at the binding beam.

There is a blocked unglazed window at the upper front, which has three of four diamond mullions present and a shutter groove. A similar window at the upper rear retains two of three diamond mullions. The upper room has been sealed off and disused for a long time, possibly since shortly after the construction of the main house around 1600, preserving valuable evidence of medieval interior finishes. The larger house features jowled posts, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, chamfered axial beams with unusual carved stops, and plain joists of vertical section. There are two large wood-burning hearths that have been reduced for 20th-century grates.