Little Farm And 2 Adjoining Barns

Little Farm and two adjoining barns are a house and barns dating back to the 15th century. The original structure was an open hall house, with a floor and chimney inserted in two stages during the 17th century. A rear outshut was added in the 17th century using red brick, with the south half of the front of the house later clad in 18th-century red brick, and the north end in 19th-century plum brick. The roofs are steeply pitched and covered with red machine-made tiles.

The house has a large, 1 1/2-storey design facing west, with a weatherboarded barn range extending to the south. The building features an internal chimney and a lobby entrance with a staircase positioned a third from the north end, and a kitchen chimney at the south end. The front of the house is irregular, with the southern kitchen section having lower eaves. A plank door with a tiled hood leads into a stone-floored kitchen, lit by a three-light casement window with a segmental arch. The centre of the front has a chequered pattern of red and black 18th-century brickwork, a three-light ground floor casement, and a gabled dormer breaking through the eaves, with a three-light casement and tile hanging above. A front door on the left has a moulded flat hood and a two-light window above it under the eaves. A three-light casement window is located in the north room, set higher, and there is a window in the north gable on the first floor. A large gabled dormer at the rear of the first floor extends from the south end.

Internally, the house retains evidence of a two-bay hall at the north end, with a narrower third bay to the south. The framing is a heavy box-frame construction; however, the middle truss of the hall incorporates jointed cruck blades linked by an arched braced collar. Each bay has an intermediate principal, and each half-bay has arched wind-braces. All structural members are hollow-chamfered and exhibit a high standard of carpentry finish. The floor was inserted into the hall in stages, featuring a fine double-ovolo chamfered beam in the north bay, with a simpler chamfered and stopped beam in the middle bay. The north end truss displays clasped-purlin construction. The timber frames of the kitchen end are massive but have a rough finish. The barns, one dating to the 18th century with a half-hipped corrugated asbestos roof, are linked to the south end of the house by a lower barn with an old red tile roof, which provides a carriageway into a yard occupying the north half of the building.