Roe End Farmhouse

The farmhouse dates to the late 16th century, with a 17th-century crosswing added to the east and a gabled rear extension built at the same time. A 19th-century outshut runs to the rear, along with an 1880s brick extension to the east crosswing and a large, eastern parlour block. A 20th-century glazed porch now sits at the front. The house is timber-framed and mostly red brick, with a plum-coloured brick finish to the eastern block and rear extension to the east crosswing. It has steep, old red tile roofs, with the eastern block being hipped.

The original layout was a two-story, three-unit lobby-entry plan facing south, with a large internal chimney positioned next to a gabled, taller east crosswing projecting to the front, and a gabled rear service wing behind the chimney. A two-story gabled rear extension to the crosswing has higher ceiling heights, and a taller two-story eastern block stands at the eastern end. The south front is irregular, with the older western part featuring two windows on each floor, using 3-light flush casements with small panes and cambered arches to the ground floor. A large square chimney is a prominent feature. The east crosswing has a recessed sash window with 3/3 panes on the first floor. The hipped eastern block has a large external projecting chimney flanked by gabled first-floor windows, each with narrow recessed sash windows with 2/2 panes in raised red brick surrounds. Brick labels highlight two tall, narrow sash windows on the ground floor, and a large canted bay sits on the east end of the eastern block, with a sash window of 3/3 panes on the first floor.

Inside, the rear wall framework is exposed, revealing jowled posts, mortices for braces to tie-beams, and a clasped-purlin roof on collar-and-queen-strut trusses with straight wind-braces. There are heavy straight braces in the walls and a squint-butted scarf joint in the wallplate. Remaining wall paintings, featuring a white foliate design on a reddish ground, are visible on the faces of beams across the west end of the former middle room, with a cellar beneath. Axial, chamfered beams have hollow stops. A panelled 18th-century corner cupboard is built against a cross partition on the west, with a matching cut sill-plate and holes for wattle and daub infill between mortices for studs. An undivided room at the western end suggests it was originally the upper-end of the house, and that the 17th-century crosswing replaced the earlier service-bay. The ground floor of the eastern block has a very high room, with a bedroom above, partially in the roof. A fireplace with corner blocks and paterae is found in the office behind the east crosswing. A dairy occupies the ground floor of the 17th-century rear extension.