Humphreys Farmhouse

Humphreys Farmhouse is a house mainly dating from around 1600, which incorporates a late medieval crosswing. It was altered around 1975. The building is timber framed, roughcast rendered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It is aligned approximately east to west, with a southern aspect.

At the eastern end, there is a service crosswing from a late medieval hall house, of which the rest has been removed. The chimney stack, dating from the late 16th century, has two hearths facing west and backs onto the still-in-use medieval cross-entry. To the west, there is a range of three bays that occupies the site of the medieval hall and parlour, following the same layout. A stair tower, with a pitched roof, is located at the rear of the hall/parlour partition and dates from around 1600.

The service wing at the rear of the crosswing is from the early 17th century and has a chimney stack at its end. There is a lean-to extension to the east of this wing, featuring a catslide roof, and a small lean-to extension to the north, both from the 20th century. Additionally, there are two small lean-to extensions situated between the service wing and the stair tower.

The farmhouse has two storeys. The southern elevation features a glazed door within a tiled gabled porch and a three-window range of casements, all dating from around 1975. The jowled posts and close-studded walls are now only visible within the rear lean-to. The beams are plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. The winding stair in the rear tower is mainly original, and there is a blocked window at the top of the western side.

The brickwork of the main stack has been significantly altered at the ground floor level, but on the first floor, it retains a hearth with a depressed arch and chamfered jambs, which was originally plastered but is now stripped. On the western wall of the hall, there is a strip of around 1600 panelling that formed the original back of a settle, although the seat is missing. The floor of the crosswing has been rebuilt, with a rolled steel joist on the line of the former partition. The positions of twin service doors can still be identified, although the doorheads are missing.

The central tiebeam is cambered with arched braces, and there is an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the eastern wallplate. The roof, which was not accessible during inspection, is believed to have originally been of crownpost construction but was rebuilt around 1600. In the rear wing, there is a cast iron door for a bread oven located in the northeast corner of the stack, although most of the oven has been demolished. The mantel beam was raised approximately 30 centimeters around 1975 for use as an alcove.