Dukes Farmhouse

Dukes Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1400, with significant additions from the middle 15th century and early 16th century. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with gabled roofs covered in peg tiles. The house has an H plan layout, featuring jettied crosswings at both the east and west ends, with the timber frame exposed on the first floor of the front facade.

The rear wall has a large stack from the early 16th century, which has been rebuilt at the top with a small square flue. The east crosswing includes a 17th-century stack on its flank, featuring two tall diagonal shafts, while a 20th-century stack is present on the flank of the west crosswing. The windows are a mix of 20th-century timber casements with leaded lights on the front, along with a 20th-century bay window that has a peg tile lean-to roof beneath the east wing jetty. An old arched door head can be seen on the back.

The east crosswing is the earliest part of the building, likely constructed around 1400, and features soffit tenons, a steeply cambered tiebeam with traces of 17th-century painting, and a cross quadrant crownpost. The rear of this section was originally half-hipped with a gablet but has been altered and extended. The service west crosswing, built in the middle 15th century, has central tenons with soffit shoulders on the floor joists and a simple crownpost roof with bracing extending down to the flanking studs.

The two-storey main block, dating from the early 16th century, has a four-way braced central crownpost with a brace-supporting step at half height. Inside, there are muntin and panel screens that remain in place, arch braces to the tiebeam, and diminished haunch floor joists. A bridging joist features a late 16th-century moulded corbel block. Some old doors are present, including 17th-century eight-panel examples. There is also a 17th-century staircase tower at the rear, which retains fragments of its contemporary handrail. Additionally, there are remains of what is likely a moat surrounding the property.