Breach Farmhouse

Breach Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600. It has two storeys and is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior. The roof is covered with peg tiles, featuring gables at the northeast and a hipped section over a crosswing at the southwest, which returns to a gable at the rear. The rear of the building includes two gabled staircase towers and a single-storey kitchen-like block that has part flint walling. The layout follows the 'baffle entry' type but includes a wide tunnel through the chimney stack that creates a cross passage. The southwest crosswing is fully articulated in its structure. The front of the farmhouse features several old cast iron casements with leaded lights, as well as two open, gabled 19th-century porches with peg tiles. The off-centre stack is contemporary and has four square detached shafts that are joined at the top. One of the stair towers retains its original newel post and finial, along with an arched head at the ground floor entrance. The roof structure consists of side purlins and a clasped collar, incorporating remnants of an earlier crown post roof.