Blue House Farmhouse

Blue House Farmhouse is a house dating back to the 17th century, with early 19th-century alterations. It is timber-framed and clad in weatherboarding, with a hipped peg-tiled roof. The house has a rectangular plan, with a principal stack positioned on the rear roof ridge, slightly off-centre to the west.

The front, or north, elevation has three window bays, with a central front door. The windows are mostly sash windows with thin glazing bars, arranged in 4x4 panes, and likely dating to the early 19th century. They have bead moulding on the frames, except for one ground-floor window on the north end, which was renewed in the later 19th century and has a different design without moulding and horned sashes. The central front door is a 20th-century replacement, with upper glazing bars (3x4 panes) and a lower boarded panel. The rear, or south, elevation is pebble-dashed and rendered, also with three window bays similar to the front. A timber-framed and weatherboarded bakehouse addition, with a hipped pantiled roof, is situated on the ground floor to the west. It features a casement window with glazing bars (5x2 panes) and a plain 20th-century stable-style door with a gauze panel. The first floor of the rear elevation has two sash windows with 4x4 panes, and a 19th-century casement window with glazing bars (2x2 panes). A principal stack and a subsidiary bakehouse stack rise through the roof pitch at the east end, both dating to the 19th century. A dormer window with a peg-tiled roof and a 4x4 pane casement sits over the central bay. The west elevation is plain and pebble-dashed, while the east elevation is weatherboarded and has a 20th-century conservatory porch with a pebble-dashed finish, 3 upper panes and a door with an upper glazed panel and a lower boarded panel.

Inside, evidence suggests significant reworkings in the 19th century. However, the roof at the western end is oak, of a 17th-century clasped side purlin type. The ground and first floor rooms at the west end have central axial joists with 17th-century lamb's tongue stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. Fireplaces have been rebuilt. C19 beaded boarding on the front wall suggests the front door was originally aligned with the stack, indicating a 17th-century three-celled lobby entrance type layout. Modifications in the 19th century, and 20th-century repairs, particularly to the back wall and lowering of the east end roof pitch following bomb damage, have obscured the original form.