Gold Rill And Rotten End Farmhouse

Gold Rill and Rotten End Farmhouse is a house that has been divided into two homes. It dates from the late 16th century and has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The main range has three bays and faces east, featuring a 18th or 19th-century axial stack and a 17th-century external stack at the left end. At the right end, there is a three-bay crosswing that extends forward, with a central stack from the 19th century and a stair extension from the 19th or 20th century at the front angle, along with a catslide roof from the crosswing. There are also 20th-century single-storey extensions at the left end.

The facade includes a five-window range of 20th-century casements, with one in the attic gable and another in a flat-roofed dormer. There are two 20th-century doors with shallow canopies and a hipped gablet at the left end. The building is two storeys high with attics. Inside, there are jowled posts, close studding with interior 'Suffolk' bracing, chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of horizontal section. The wallplates feature face-halved and bladed scarfs, and the roof has clasped purlins with arched wind-bracing. There is a framed stair trap in the left bay, which is blocked, and a fragment of a 4-centred doorhead in the partition between the two left bays. A 16th or 17th-century ledged door made of splay-rebated planks is found in the left bay, although it is not in its original position.

Additionally, there is a blocked original window in the rear wall of the right bay of the main range, which has two mullions moulded to an unusual profile, with mortices for saddle bars and grooves for sliding shutters, indicating early glazed windows. The building's plan is unusual, as there is pegging for an original partition between the middle and right bays of the main range, and on the first floor, there is no original partition between the two left bays. A solid tread stair leads to the attic of the crosswing.