Dunkirk Farmhouse

Dunkirk Farmhouse, now a house, likely dates to the late 16th or early 17th century, incorporating earlier elements, with alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries and restoration completed in 1989-90. The farmhouse is timber-framed with replaced wattle and daub infill on a brick plinth, and features pargeted, rendered cladding to the exterior. It has a plain tile roof and brick stacks. An outshut is attached to the right, clad in weatherboard and covered with Welsh slate.

The two-storey farmhouse has a partial attic. It comprises three-and-a-half cells, including an entrance lobby and a stair half-cell between the right-hand cells, with a side outshut addition. A part-glazed, four-panel door is protected by a bracketed pent tile canopy. A former door to the outshut has been replaced with a window. Late 20th-century sash windows with 12-pane upper sashes and 3-pane lower sashes are arranged as three on the ground floor, four above, with paired, small, one-light windows between two first-floor windows on the left-hand side. A gabled dormer with a six-pane, top-hinged casement is located above the entrance bay. The external end stacks, one rebuilt, and the ridge stack between the left-hand cells all have diagonally set flues.

The interior retains exposed timber framing, with some 19th or 20th-century timber replacements. Original partition walls remain, rising to the roof, except for the wall between the second cell and the entrance half-cell. There are chamfered spine beams with bar-and-cyma and lambs tongue stops. On the first floor, doorways are chamfered, with some old doors, and an elliptically-arched fireplace is in the left-hand room. The roof features collared tie-beam trusses with studs and infill, old rafters, clasped purlins, and straight wind-braces. The stair is from the late 18th or early 19th century, with a close string, columnar newel, and stick balusters. The outshut has a stone flag floor and a mid-19th-century range.

Historical records indicate that a mid-16th century farthing was discovered below the floor of the left-hand ground-floor room, and an iron casement with diagonal-leading was found behind the rear wall. Previously, a pump and a long stone sink were located in the outshut. Dunkirk Farmhouse North Side, adjoining the rear of the main farmhouse, is now a separate residence and is not of special interest.