Ferriers Farmhouse

Ferriers Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with significant alterations and restyling in the 18th and 19th centuries, and external features from the early 19th century. It is timber-framed, with plaster infill and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The main frontage has four bays, with two 18th-century axial chimney stacks. An original rear wing is located to the right, with a 16th-century external chimney stack beyond, creating an L-shaped layout. Further rear wings, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, complete a rectangular plan, alongside a single-storey lean-to extension. A similar slate-roofed extension is located to the left rear.

The house is two storeys high and has a three-window front with early 19th-century tripartite sashes of 4-12-4 lights, a 18th-century sash window of 8 lights above the front door, and a four-panel front door with glazed upper panels, set within an early 19th-century Tuscan porch with rectangular lights above and to each side. The 16th-century external chimney stack at the right rear features two octagonal shafts with moulded bases, the caps connected by a pointed brick arch, a rare architectural detail. Original sprockets are visible on the right wall of this wing.

Inside, the left half of the main range has richly molded axial and transverse beams on the first floor, with plastered soffits. The original long elevation was jettied and has since been underbuilt. Joists with similar mouldings have been reused on edge in a rear ancillary building. The walls were raised approximately one meter in the 18th and 19th centuries, revealing some “jowled” posts and one cambered tiebeam through the plaster. A ground floor room in the right rear wing has exposed studwork, grooves for unglazed windows, a Tudor-style doorhead doorway to the main range, a chamfered axial beam, and an original hearth with a depressed brick arch. The roofs were not inspected but are likely original over this wing.