Plaistowgreen Farmhouse

House. This is a mid-16th century farmhouse, with alterations from the 17th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, with plaster rendering and a roof of handmade red plain tiles. It has three bays facing northwest, featuring a 17th-century external stack on the right and a 19th/20th-century stack on the left. A full-length lean-to extension exists at the rear, with the left portion forming an open loggia. The house has two storeys and a three-window front with 20th-century casement windows. A 20th-century door provides access. A full-length jetty is plastered over, revealing four original brackets. Gablet hips are present at each end of the roof. Inside, there are jowled posts with some close studding visible, and edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates. Originally, the interior was divided into a short left bay for service areas, and two longer bays for a “hall” and a cross-entry, with corresponding chambers above. The original front doorway is blocked, but the original rear doorway remains in use, with rebated doorposts and a hollow-chamfered four-centred arched head. A partition wall to the left of the cross-entry has had two doorways, asymmetrically arranged, and a chamfered bridging beam connects the doorways, showing no clear indication of a division between service rooms. On the first floor, this partition remains with original patterned daub. The binding beam across the “hall” is moulded on both sides with an ogee and hollow profile, with one swept stop. A wide opening in the studding suggests the former position of an original rear chimney, likely timber-framed, confirmed by woodsmoke staining on a wallplate. The tiebeam below the right gablet has been removed. Ceilings were inserted in the 17th century in both upper rooms, featuring chamfered beams with lamb’s tongue stops. The roof is a side-purlin design with arched wind-bracing. The large wood-burning hearth at the right end has been reduced to accommodate a 20th-century grate.