Loxley Farm

Loxley Farm is a farmhouse, now a private house, dating from the early 16th century, with alterations in the mid-17th and 18th centuries. The main range has 16th-century floor timbers, while the central chimney and a rear lean-to were added in the mid-17th century, and the front was later re-cased in brick during the 18th century. The house is timber-framed on a brick sill with brick infill, the front being red brick with grey headers. It has steep, old red tile roofs. The house is a large, two-storey lobby-entry plan with a two-storey and attic service crosswing projecting to the west and a small, 19th-century, single-storey, hip-roofed extension at the east end.

The north front has a plinth, with two flush, three-light casement windows to each floor, along with windows to the east extension and each floor of the crosswing. There are segmental arches and external shutters to the ground floor, and a central six-panel door with a moulded hood on shaped brackets. A wide arch is in the plinth, over a capped well to the left of the door. A tall, axial, three-shaft chimney, with a joint plinth and moulded cap, is present. The chimney shafts are polygonal with pilaster strips. A large external chimney and exposed framing are visible on the first floor of the west side of the two-bay west wing.

The house appears to have been built partly open to the roof, with a contemporary, structurally independent crosswing. It likely originally had two smoke-bays back-to-back with a lobby entrance to the side, as is now the case. The central truss has a closed truss in its upper part, and the mid-17th century chimney probably re-uses the lintel of the original smoke hood. The hall to the west of the chimney has a floor with chamfered and scroll-stopped joists, carried on a massive axial beam with a double ovolo chamfer and elaborate three-bar stops. Similar chamfered joists are in the west room (parlour), carried on a chamfered axial beam with less elaborate stops. The mid-17th century brick chimney has clunch jambs to the hall fireplace and an oven under a winding stair at the rear. The two-bay west crosswing has flat joists, along with trimming for a stair, next to the present stair in the rear northeast corner, and a fine, early 17th-century, strapwork carved soffit to a crossbeam (likely a casing). A chamber fireplace, above the hall, has a four-centred moulded brick head and jambs. The roofs are clasped-purlin with curved wind braces. The well-finished joists over the hall are continued over the rear outshut adjoining, as if it were an extension of the room.