Nursery Farmhouse

House. The building originates from the 16th century, but has an 18th-century facade and later alterations. It is timber framed and has red and black brick facing. It features left and right chimney stacks with attached octagonal shafts. The eaves have a dentilled cornice. There are three first-floor windows and two ground-floor windows, all 20th-century casements with small panes. Those on the ground floor have segmental arches. A casement window is present in the return gable of the attic. The central door is vertically boarded and has a flat canopy above.

Inside, the two front rooms each have an angled rear corner fireplace. The ground floor left fireplace has a 17th-century wooden moulded surround and mantel, along with a semi-circular red brick hearth, a moulded gun rack, and a panelled cupboard. The first floor right fireplace also has a 17th-century moulded surround and mantel, a moulded cornice, and a panelled cupboard. The panel above this fireplace is late 17th century and is believed to depict the Great Fire of London, showing the South Bank, the river, and flames rising from buildings, with the old St. Paul's Cathedral and the Tower of London visible.

A 16th-century rear staircase has been inserted into an earlier building. It has a moulded string and handrail with dogleg 2-storey and attic stairs, and angled splat balusters that follow the curve of the design. The walls have 11 half-height panels, each containing paintings dating from approximately 1680 to 1715, depicting reveling Bacchi and Satyrs. Some paintings show single figures playing musical instruments, while others feature groups of figures with goats, sheep, and bulls, one including a man-faced leopard. Two figures are blowing bubbles. These paintings have been examined by Mr. Clive Rouse and British Museum staff, and no other similar paintings are currently known. Other features include moulded and vertically boarded doors and chamfered bridging joists in the original building. The building was known in the 18th century as Salters Folly; Mr. Salter lived at Tyndales, Southend Road. The brick facade was likely constructed by Obediah Barker, Brickmaker.