D'Arcy Gate Farmhouse

D'Arcy Gate Farmhouse is a moated house dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, with an 18th and 19th-century addition. It is constructed with a timber frame, roughcast rendering, and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The original 16th-century section is a two-bay crosswing aligned northeast-southwest. This was part of a larger house that originally extended southeast. An early 17th-century two-bay extension was added to the northeast, featuring an internal stack at the junction. A weatherboarded lean-to extension projects beyond this, and further additions include an 18th or early 19th-century bakehouse extending southeast from the lean-to, and a further ancillary building, now incorporated into the main house.

The crosswing is two stories high with an attic, while the 17th-century extension is two stories tall. The southeast elevation features early 19th-century sash windows of 16, 20, and 12 lights on the ground floor, and three sashes of 16, 12, and 12 lights on the first floor; a 20th-century casement window is also present. A 20th-century door is set within a gabled porch at the front. The southwest elevation, facing Kelvedon Road, also has early 19th-century sashes of 16 lights on both floors, and a 20th-century casement in the attic gable.

The former bakehouse has an exposed timber frame with 20th-century brick nogging, a slate roof, and the ancillary building has similar brick walling and a red clay pantile roof. The crosswing exhibits jowled posts, close studding, a chamfered binding beam with broach stops, and horizontal section joists, which were originally plain but later chamfered. It also has a cambered tiebeam and a clasped purlin roof, with traces of original red paint remaining on the tiebeam and parts of the roof structure.

An incomplete oriel window is found in the northeast wall on the upper floor, blocked by the inserted stack and the 17th-century extension. One window beside it remains complete with a moulded mullion, originally unglazed, showing evidence of leaded glass attachment prior to the 17th-century extension. A painted design on the attic gable wall, including the date 1573, the initials I.W.A.P., and decorative numerals, likely marks the construction date of this wing. An original doorway with a four-centred head is visible on the southeast side, leading to the former main range. The house contains wide wood-burning hearths facing both ways, altered for small grates.

The 17th-century extension displays primary straight bracing, a face-halved and bladed scarf in the southeast wallplate, and a clasped purlin roof. The first bay has a chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists of vertical section, with lamb's tongue stops, while the second (service) bay has plain joists of horizontal section. Introduced early 17th-century oak panelling is also present. The original orientation of the house appears to have faced northeast, away from the Kelvedon Road, but was reoriented in the early 17th century when the main range was demolished and a new range built to the northeast.

The building was known as Greens Farm on Chapman and Andre's map of 1777. Similarities in construction and layout exist with nearby farms, including Limesbrook Farm and Rolls Farm.