Home Farm

Home Farm

Farmhouse dating from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with 19th-century additions. The building is timber-framed and plastered with a peg-tiled roof, arranged in an L-shaped plan with two storeys.

The main long jettied range features seven well-preserved jetty brackets on its east front elevation, decorated with panelled pargetting displaying a combed pattern. The ground floor has three windows and the first floor has five, all fitted with glazing bars (four by three panes) except for one 19th-century double casement with a wide central divider. Two ground floor doors, positioned at the north and south ends, are both four-panel doors with bead moulding. A large 17th-century red brick stack with clustered square section shafts in three blocks (one set diagonally and of different build) rises behind the roof apex above the north door, with a smaller secondary red brick stack at the south end.

A 19th-century brick addition extends to the north, featuring a three-light casement window with glazing bars (six by three panes) and a two by two paned casement window, with a small red brick stack off-centre to the north.

The rear (west) elevation is similar in character to the front but without the jetty. It retains pargetting, some early and some reworked. Four windows are arranged across this elevation: a two-storey timber-framed bay with three-cant (set north of centre) containing casements with two by three and four by three pane arrangements; two 19th-century double casements (four by three panes); and a single-light casement (two by three panes). The first floor has two 19th-century double casements (four by three panes) and one four by three paned sliding sash. A principal stack with diagonal shafts emerges through the roof pitch. The north addition features rendered brick and weatherboard cladding with upper slatted louvres, two boarded doors (one four-panelled with upper glazed lights), and a 20th-century double casement window (four by three panes). The south addition has a boarded door, a 19th-century sliding sash (four by three panes), and a single-light casement.

The north end elevation displays a 20th-century two-panelled door (upper one glazed) with 20th-century single-light casements on either side. The south end elevation is blank, showing lower colour-washed brickwork and upper pargetted plaster, with one roof side-purlin protruding.

Interior

The interior retains a late 16th-century plan of three cells with a chimney bay, plus two additional 17th-century bays at the south end. Original interior tension-braced framing is visible on the first floor at the original south end, featuring edge-halved and bridled scarf joints. The roof throughout employs side-purlin construction. The binding joist of the central hall bay runs across the front of the 17th-century stack, positioned away from the brickwork and featuring bar-stop chamfers on the joist with an inner chamfer stopped short of full width, indicating that the framing originally held a timber chimney hood. This detail helps explain the double build of the off-centre inserted stack.