Marden'S Farmhouse

Marden's Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed, primarily covered with red brick laid in Flemish bond, and partly weatherboarded, with a roof made of asbestos tiles. The house has four bays facing south, featuring an axial stack in the second bay from the left, which creates a lobby entrance, and an external stack at the right end, now enclosed by a single-storey service range with attics added in the 18th or 19th century, which includes an end stack. There is also a single-storey lean-to extension at the rear.

The farmhouse is two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there are three mid-19th century tripartite sash windows with 2-4-2 lights. The first floor has three mid-19th century sashes with six lights and a blocked opening above the door. The front of the gabled porch features an early 19th-century six-panel flush door, with the top two panels glazed. The 19th-century brick cladding shows a straight joint behind the porch and has a plain string course to the left. The rear elevation is weatherboarded.

Inside, the farmhouse has chamfered transverse and axial beams, along with plain joists of horizontal section, all featuring lamb's tongue stops. There are two wide wood-burning hearths that have been blocked and re-faced. The walls were raised approximately one metre in the 18th or early 19th century. A quarter-turn staircase from the early 19th century is located at the rear of the axial stack, featuring a hardwood rail and stick balusters. The difference in the brick cladding and the increased ceiling height in the left bay suggest that this section was raised and clad before the rest, but both were completed within the first half of the 19th century. The service range has a good brick floor, and there are 18th or early 19th-century hinges on the internal doors, along with one mid-19th century half-glazed door with handmade glass.