Stony Hills Farm

Stony Hills Farm is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century, with additions made in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, with a peg-tiled roof. The building follows a T-shaped plan, with an east-west range constructed in the 17th century and a north-south cross-wing added in the 20th century using brick and pebble dash render. A single-storey, pebble dash rendered brick unit at the east end is not included in the listing.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic. The north front has three bays, a central stack, and a door. All five windows are 20th-century 2-light casements with glazing bars, arranged as 4 panes over 3 panes. The door is boarded with a single light and has a simple projecting gabled pediment with shaped barge boards. The weatherboarding is a 20th-century replacement. A visible stack contains 18th or 19th-century brickwork. The rear south elevation is weatherboarded, with two window ranges and similar 20th-century casement windows to those on the north front. A central dormer window has a 2-light casement window matching the others. A simple skylight is located in the roof pitch to the west. The east elevation is mostly obscured by the 20th-century addition, but an attic gable has a 2-light casement window similar to those elsewhere on the house.

The interior reveals the framing of a 17th-century house with two cells and a central chimney. There are axial joists on both the ground and first floors, displaying lamb's tongue stopped chamfers. Common joists are of a deep section with diminished haunched tenons and pendant soffits. Wallplates are jointed in the chimney bay using face halved and bladed scarfs. The central stack does not occupy the full axial span of the chimney bay, and subsidiary framing is present, suggesting the possible existence of a former timber chimney. Fireplaces have been rebuilt or blocked, but a ground floor fireplace in the west room retains the form of a former parlour, with a small 4-centred arched head and a curved fireback. The backing fireplace on the east side is large and in the shape of a general-use fireplace, now the kitchen/living room. Cupboard doors have simple butterfly hinges. The attic has a roof with a joggled butt side purlin form, with collars set high to allow occupation, and wind braces at the northeast end. There is a staircase to the attic at the rear of the stack, with a rebuilt lower section. Within the attic are four 17th-century diagonally set chimney shafts set on a base with a corbel cornice – not visible externally. A plain shaft is attached to the west side. The external later stack appears to sit over the diagonal shafts. The presence of these shafts and base suggests the house was heightened from one-and-a-half storeys to two with attics, although there is no visible evidence of this in the exposed internal framing.