Bottom Farmhouse

Bottom Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 16th century, with a narrower section from the 16th or 17th century, an 18th-century northern part that is partly dug into the hillside, and a narrow two-storey rear range from the 19th century on the southeast. The building features timber frames that are cased in red brick, although the southern end is exposed with brick infill, and the northern end has plaster infill. It has steep old red tile roofs and presents an irregular two-storey facade with three windows facing west. The house has three-light casement windows and separate doors leading into the southern and middle parts. There are two external gable chimneys at the southern end, and a former large external chimney on the northern gable of the middle part now rises through the northern section.

The southern part, which is the oldest, was originally two storeys and likely jettied on the western side. It features heavy jowled posts, cranked tension braces in the northern end wall, remnants of wattle and daub infill, wide-spaced storey-height studs, and the remains of a four-light diamond mullioned window on the first floor at the rear. The roof structure consists of clasped purlins with collar and queen struts and curved wind braces. The ground floor of the northern bay has a heavy stone slab floor and a staircase that rises to the first floor beside a chamfered cross-beam with hollow stops. The narrower middle section, which is one bay, has an axial floor beam and a clasped-purlin roof with inclined straight queen posts and straight wind braces, and it likely served as a service wing with a large chimney on the northern gable. The northern part was originally open to the roof with a clasped-purlin structure and an external chimney on the eastern side, although a stair and floor have been recently inserted.