Gregory'S Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Built around the late medieval period, it was remodelled around the early 17th century and extended in the 19th century and late 20th century. The construction is timber-frame with roughcast rendering. It has a plain tile roof with gabled ends and rendered brick axial and gable end stacks. The layout shows that the front range was remodelled around the early 17th century from an earlier house. It originally comprised three rooms, with an axial stack inserted between a parlour on the left and a kitchen on the right, with a smaller, unheated bay at the right end now divided. In the 19th century, a two-span wing was added behind the left end, and a late 20th-century extension was built in the rear angle. The exterior is one storey and attic with an asymmetrical four-window range featuring 20th-century casement windows. There is a first-floor centre 19th-century two-light casement with glazing bars and two gabled dormers. A large gabled parlour was added in the 20th century on the right. The rear has two gables on the right, a 20th-century porch on the left, and all 20th-century casements. Inside, the timber frame is exposed. The left-hand parlour has a chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops at one end and a large brick fireplace with chamfered timber jambs and lintel. The former kitchen in the centre room has no main beam and a brick fireplace, unchamfered timber lintel and a brick oven. The rear wing displays exposed timber framing from the original front range and unchamfered ceiling beams. The parlour chamber has a fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel with hollow step stops. A raised wall plate is visible, along with jowled posts in front of and behind the stack. An earlier, lower tie-beam is chamfered on the right side of the stack, separating the hall/kitchen (right) from the rest. The roof over the parlour to the left of the stack is a circa 17th-century clasped purlin type; the roof over the hall-kitchen and the low end were rebuilt.