Dabbs Farmhouse

Dabbs Farmhouse is a house located in Navestock, dating from the early 16th century to the early 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, rendered exterior, and some weatherboarding on the east side, topped with a peg-tiled roof. The building consists of two parallel gabled ranges; the western range is from the 16th century, while the eastern range is from the 17th century. These ranges are connected by an early 17th-century stack featuring clustered shafts and a transverse roof. The house is two stories high with attics, displaying a double gable and a continuous jetty on the south front, while the north front is partially jettied with a combination of hipped and gabled roofs.

Inside, the earlier western block features flat sectioned joists with reduced centre tenons and a simple roof structure. The eastern block has a butt side purlined roof and lamb's tongue stopped chamfers on the principal ceiling joists. A central brick stack includes four fireplaces: one large fireplace on the ground floor with a restored timber lintel, another with a brick four-centred arch, and two arched fireplaces on the first floor. This stack was likely inserted into the 16th-century frame when the 17th-century work was added. The house has 20th-century lean-to additions and a small stack on the north front. Originally, the main entrance was probably on the south side, but it is now accessed from the north.