Farmhouse At Finches Farm

Finches Farm is a farmhouse that dates back to the early to mid-17th century, with a later 18th-century brick wing added to the north. The older section is timber-framed and features red brick extensions at the front and rear, topped with a steep catslide old tile roof that is half-hipped at the south end. The north wing is constructed of red brick with grey brick flat gauged arches, while the front of this section has grey brick with red brick gauged arches. The roof of the newer part is an old red tile gambrel roof, hipped at the rear.

Originally, the farmhouse was designed as a three-cell structure with a central chimney, facing east and featuring a winding stair next to the chimney. The building has two storeys and attics, with chamfered axial beams. The northern parlour end was removed when the 18th-century wing was built, which created a new entrance hall and stair, along with two spacious rooms and attics above.

The symmetrical east front of the newer section has two large Venetian sash windows on each floor and a central entrance. The entrance features a six-panel moulded door set within a mutular Doric pilastered doorcase, and there is a small flat-topped dormer behind the parapet. A small window has been unfortunately inserted above the door. There are two red brick chimneys on the north end, flanked by blind recesses with gauged brick flat arches.

The older part of the farmhouse includes three casement windows and a large red brick chimney that rises through the rear roofslope. Inside the older section, there are chamfered beams, one with a bar stop on the first floor, a chamfered and stopped doorframe on the ground floor, and a bolection moulded door leading to the stair, which features an ogee finial on the newel at attic level. The vertically moulded plank doors have H-hinges. In the newer north wing, there is a simple stair, a raised and fielded panelled corner cupboard with a fretted frieze in the office to the left of the entrance, and a glazed corner cupboard with shaped shelves and a hemicycle head, painted with a delicate romantic landscape scene featuring archers and stags.