Pettits Farmhouse

Pettits Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 15th century, with additions from the mid-16th century and late 18th to early 19th centuries. It is timber-framed and rendered, with some brick, and has a peg-tiled roof. The building is arranged in an L-plan with three units and stands two storeys tall. The facade is irregular, featuring two specific units.

The northern block has two storeys and a two-window range, with a rendered stack to the north. It includes 20th-century wooden casements with top opening lights. The ground floor has a 20th-century porch with canted sides and is glazed all around. The door is a 20th-century oak boarded design with a rounded head. The southern block is one and a half storeys with a three-window range. It features an early 19th-century double casement window with glazing bars in a 4x2 pane configuration, a central 20th-century canted bay window with principal and upper lights, and a refurbished gabled dormer window with a casement and top opening light. There are red brick stacks at the central and southern end gables.

Inside, the northern block is the earliest part, dating to the 15th century, and has jowled posts, flat laid joists with soffit tenons, and is said to have exterior tension braces along with a simple crown post roof. The principal members have bold chamfers. The first floor shows evidence of two mullioned windows, one of which has a shutter groove. The second phase includes the one and a half storeyed range from the mid-16th century, with a central fireplace that is likely contemporary but has been rebuilt. The floor joists in the northern section are flat laid with diminished haunched soffit tenons, and there is a side purlin roof. The southern end has been much rebuilt, with evidence of later framing. The third phase involved constructing a two-storeyed range at the rear of the 15th-century block, featuring slender framing from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. The entire house has been restored in the 20th century. The rear of the house is similar to the front, with casement windows, and one early 19th-century fixed window survives with glazing bars in a 4x3 pane configuration, topped by a gabled dormer window that has been restored with a 20th-century casement window.