Little Beeleigh Farmhouse

Little Beeleigh Farmhouse is a house dating back to the 15th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is timber-framed and rendered, with brick sections, and has plain tile roofs. The original plan formed a U-shape, consisting of a north/south range, a north cross-wing, and a single-storey block to the south. A two-storey block is situated to the west of the south block.

The east front is jettied, featuring a moulded bressumer and two original carved jetty brackets. The timber frame is exposed, with small-paned sash windows on the first floor. The ground floor has similar windows and a canted bay window, alongside a central door with six raised and fielded panels and a moulded architrave. Exposed timbers indicate the former presence of oriel and frieze windows, along with the site of a former two-storey projecting porch. A single-storey extension to the south end of the main range is constructed of Flemish-bond brick, displaying a decorative parapet and a small pointed-arched Gothick window, a door with a segmental head, and a sash window. The rear elevation features a mix of 19th and 20th-century sash windows and casements, with some frame exposed on the southwest block.

The interior reveals that the northern cross-wing dates from the mid-15th century, originally comprising two bays but later truncated. A mid-16th century long wall jetty structure adjoins, creating a two-bay hall/great chamber, and a two-room service bay to the south with a small chamber above. A panel of studwork formerly separated the service doors. The structure incorporates jowled posts and a crown-post roof with thin cranked longitudinal braces to the collar purlin. The southwest block is a mid-17th century two-storey structure with high-quality timber framing. The ground floor spine beam and bridging joists have ogee chamfers, while those above have stopped quadrant chamfers. The ground floor features a floor of Flemish yellow floor bricks, possibly relaid in the 20th century. The house includes an early 19th-century staircase, doors, architraves and a typical fireplace with roundels over pilasters. Some 17th-century panelling remains in a north ground-floor room, along with numerous 17th and 18th-century doors with contemporary ironwork.