Painter'S Farmhouse

The property is a farmhouse, dating back to the 17th century with further work completed in the 18th century and 20th century additions. The farmhouse is timber-framed and rendered, sitting on a brick plinth with 20th-century pargetted decoration. It has a peg-tiled roof. The arrangement is L-shaped.

The original east-west range was extended in the 18th century to the west, and then in 1964-5, the 18th-century unit was raised and expanded into the internal angle on the east side, now housing the front door. The windows are 20th-century casements with rectangular leaded panes.

The south garden elevation shows the original frontage, with one and a half storeys and a three-window range consisting of two four-light windows and one three-light window. The roof is half-hipped at both ends, featuring a tall central stack and a two-light gabled dormer window to the east. The west elevation, two storeys high, continues the original roofline to the south and is hipped to the north. An external stack near the east end has been reduced at the eaves and rebuilt. A two-leaf stable door with a bracketed hood is at the north end, with a three-light window at the south. The upper floor has two two-light windows and one three-light window.

The north elevation has a two-storey, hip-roofed block with a catslide roof over the 20th-century addition, featuring two ground-floor three-light windows. The back wall of the original block faces east and is blank. The east elevation, now the front, displays the original framing, although it has inserted sham studding between the middle rail and tie-beam. A ground-floor four-light window sits beneath an upper three-light window above the tie-beam. To the north are 20th-century additions including a front door with a boarded Tudor arched head and battens, and two three-light windows and one single-light window alongside. A flat-roofed four-light dormer window is set through the catslide roof.

Inside, the farmhouse has been altered, but the east fireplace retains original oak mantel beams, with rebuilt jambs. The west fireplace is reconstructed. Original axial floor joists run east and west from the stack. The upper floor of the 18th-century addition has wall plates from that period, originally for one and a half storeys, now raised to full two storeys. Records from 1752 document the 18th-century work.