Sacombebury Farm House And Attached Farm Buildings

This is an early 18th-century house, altered and extended in the early 19th century, along with attached farm buildings. The house is constructed of red brick with a steeply pitched tiled roof. It has five bays, two storeys and an attic, with a cellar to the right. The central entrance features a recessed, six-panelled door within a 19th-century gabled porch, with an outer Tudor arch. There are 16-pane sash windows with cambered heads, some blocked on the first floor. A continuous plat band runs along the front, and the eaves are boxed. Three gabled dormers with two-light casements are visible in the roof, the central dormer being larger. Gable end parapets have kneelers. Internal end stacks are present, with an external stack added to the left. The right gable end incorporates a cellar with two ground-floor recessed windows opening onto early 19th-century cast iron balconies. The rear elevation features two tall, two-light casements on the first floor, flanking a 19th-century white brick two-storey lean-to, with smaller one-storey lean-tos on either side. A brick kitchen and cartshed addition, built in the early 19th century using stock brick, is attached to the left end. This single-storey and lofted building features three small 16-pane recessed sashes with cambered heads, a ridge stack, and incorporates 20th-century garage doors. The rear of the house is constructed of plum brick, with three small 16-pane sashes, two doors to garages, a gabled dormer, and a loft opening. A long stable and storage range, probably dating to the 19th century and built in English bond red brick, runs along the left return. This range includes seven gauged brick pitching eyes and scattered casements, a plank door with a cambered head, and a hipped roof with a loft opening to the rear; four further gauged brick pitching eyes face the yard. A section of the stable range projects slightly into the yard, with steps leading to a plank door. To the right are three doors, three louvred openings, and a loft opening with a raking head. A low, 19th-century red brick range extends to the rear right of the house, serving as a link to a barn. The barn itself is of around the 17th century, with a timber frame on a brick base and weatherboarded exterior. The barn has a steeply pitched machine tiled roof and five bays, including a central gabled midstrey to the yard, and a stable lean-to addition to the right. The interior of the barn features jowled posts with later braces, angled queen struts, collars clasping upper purlins, a curved windbrace, and passing tension braces in the walling.