Readings Farmhouse

Readings Farmhouse is a timber-framed house dating to around 1600, with alterations made during the 19th and 20th centuries. It has four bays facing southwest, with an internal stack against the rear wall in the second bay from the left end. A further bay was added to the left side during the 18th or 19th century, and later 19th and 20th-century extensions project from the rear. The house has one storey with attics. The front features three horizontally sliding sash windows of 24 lights on the ground floor, and two sash windows of 18 lights in gabled dormers; these are 20th-century replacements accurately replicating 19th-century originals. A 20th-century door provides access. Original sprockets remain below the eaves at both the front and back of the house.

Inside, original features include jowled posts, curved tension braces trenched inside studs, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of horizontal section, and original floorboards, all of which were raised during renovations in 1983. The roof is a clasped purlin construction with face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates. A large wood-burning hearth is positioned facing to the right.