Sewards End Farmhouse

Sewards End Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century with 19th-century additions, which was refaced in 1948. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure, with red brick and peg-tiled roofs, arranged in a rectangular plan. The building has two storeys, an attic, and cellars.

The south elevation has twin gables with a rebuilt cruciform stack situated between them and a central projecting front doorway. The brick-faced gables and porch have shaped barge-boards. There are two windows, all added in 1948, consisting of 3-light casements with transoms and a total of 3x4 panes. The doorway is adorned with a moulded architrave, an overlight, and a moulded four-panel door. The stack is set low between the gables, with a gable end to the east.

The north elevation mirrors the front with twin gables, but it is timber-framed and plastered above a brick base. There are central 19th-century stacks, with the eastern stack being exterior. The rear has four scattered windows, including a ground-floor metal-framed window with three lancet heads, a sliding sash window on the first floor, and a single attic window for each gable.

On the west side, the southern end is brick-faced like the front, featuring a contemporary three-canted ground-floor bay window. The northern section has plastered framing over a brick base, with a first-floor range of three 19th-century sliding sashes and an inserted two-light casement window. The ground floor includes two doors, a three-light sliding sash window with an inserted two-light casement, a simple long four-light window, and a cellar hatch door.

The east side has a front unit that projects as a gabled wing, which is brick-faced. The northern return wall is timber-framed and plastered, while the northern range is also brick. Scattered casement windows are mainly from the refurbishment. There is a central ridge stack with a hipped dormer window aligned with a two-light casement and a single boarded door. The northern end gable stack is visible.

The interior has not been inspected, but it appears that the house originally began as a two-celled lobby entrance building, which was re-aligned in the 19th century into two parallel ranges. The front elevation wall was plastered framing up until 1948.