Swains Farmhouse

Swains Farmhouse is a house with origins dating from the late 15th century to the early 16th century, featuring later alterations and additions. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, with the ground floor underbuilt in brick. The roof is covered with red plain tiles. The building has a central range flanked by crosswings, with the left crosswing jettied. There is a red brick chimney stack located off centre to the right. The house is two storeys high and has a window arrangement of three sections, each with various small paned casements and vertically sliding sashes, along with a louvre on the ground floor left for the dairy. A 20th-century gabled porch leads to a panelled door with top lights. At the rear, there is a stair turret.

Inside, many features are obscured by 19th and 20th-century decorations. The central hall has a halved and bridled top plate scarf that originally extended north beyond a large inserted chimney stack, with visible brace mortices in the tie beam and jowled storey posts. The north crosswing is of early 16th-century construction, while the rear stair turret may also date from the 16th century. The left crosswing displays visible jowled storey posts, and the ground floor front, which was used as a Victorian dairy, retains a brick floor and an original settling shelf. Other features include vertically boarded doors, chamfered bridging joists, and additional brick floors observed during the re-survey.