Spellbrook Farmhouse

Spellbrook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building located on London Road in Spellbrook, dating from around 1700 for the rear range, with a parallel front range from the early 18th century. This double-depth house features M-shaped gables and stands two storeys high with attics. It is timber-framed and plastered, with areas of panelled chevron pargetting visible beneath a lean-to brick and slate roof scullery on the northern side. The southern gable is weatherboarded and has drip boards on brackets at each floor level. The roof is covered with old red tiles, and there are red brick gable chimneys, internal at the back and external at the front half.

The earlier rear section has a central staircase with one room on each side across three floors. The staircase is from the early 19th century, leading from the ground floor to the first floor, while the upper levels retain 18th-century features, including classical turned balusters, a moulded oak handrail, and newels. The front elevation facing east is symmetrical with five plastered windows featuring flush sash designs, moulded architraves, and 6/6 panes, and there are no dormers in the roof.

A fine early 18th-century central door has six raised and fielded panels within a shouldered ovolo moulded architrave, flanked by panelled pilasters that support bold acanthus-carved consoles and a triangular open pediment above a three-light fanlight. The central light has a trefoil head with an ogee top. The northern flank features a crow stop brick gable leading to the lean-to. The rear elevation has two hipped tiled dormers with two-light mullioned windows and leaded glazing, as well as a two-light mullioned and transomed oak window on the first floor (bathroom) with an iron opening light. The ground floor has modern windows.

Inside, the earlier rear part has cased cross beams over the centre of the rooms and moulded plank doors on old iron strap hinges. The early 18th-century front section features cased cross beams that do not align with those of the rear part, two-panel doors with H hinges on the first floor, and fine moulded two-panel doors with bolection mouldings and raised and fielded panels in the living room and dining room. Overall, Spellbrook Farmhouse is a notable period farmhouse.