Olives Farmhouse

Olives Farmhouse is a crosswing of a 15th-century hall house, with later additions dating to the 17th/18th and 20th centuries. The house is timber-framed, with plaster infill and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The service crosswing, originally jettied to the east, was aligned east-west and was part of a hall house that formerly extended to the south, although that section was demolished. A 17th/18th-century building of two storeys replaced it, featuring a hipped roof. An internal chimney stack is located at the junction of the wings, obscuring the eastern of a pair of twin doors that originally opened from the cross-entry of the medieval hall into the service crosswing. A two-storey rear extension was added in the 20th century, as were a single-storey lean-to extension in the northwest angle, and a single-storey extension to the north. The east elevation has a 6-panel door, set within a simple late 18th/early 19th-century doorcase with a shallow hood, positioned in the middle of the 17th/18th-century range. Four 20th-century casement windows are on the ground floor, and four on the first floor. Inside the crosswing, exposed, unchamfered horizontal joists and some exposed heavy studding remain. One blocked doorway has a four-centred arched head, indicating it was formerly part of a pair of service doorways. Both ground floor hearths were substantially altered in the 20th century.