Farmhouse At Swangles Farm And Former Granary At South West Corner

The building comprises a farmhouse and a former granary, dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, with alterations around 1600. A lean-to was added in the 19th century, and a granary, likely from the 17th or 18th century, stands at the southwest corner. The farmhouse has a timber frame, plastered and lined to resemble ashlar on the front, with a red brick sill. It features very steep red tile roofs. A painted brick lean-to with a tiled roof extends from the west end, and a similar lean-to serves as a porch on the front. The house follows a baffle entry plan, facing north, with the eastern bay roofed as a crosswing. The west end has a half-hipped roof. The older part of the house, in the two western bays, retains cambered tie-beams and heavy curved braces. The west end wall appears to have been rebuilt around 1600. Wall paintings survive above collar level on the east side of the middle trussed partition, and smoke-blackened rafters are re-used in the roof. The front has four bays, featuring 3-light 19th-century casement windows and a plank door under the lean-to porch. A very large central red brick chimney rises with conjoined square shafts and corbelled tops, with a 19th-century external side chimney to the east of the crosswing. An early 17th-century 2-light ovolo moulded casement window is cut into the upper floor framing at the east end. Inside, there are chamfered and hollow-stopped axial floor beams, with more elaborate bar-stops in the room to the west of the door. The west bay is now axially divided to create a pantry and dairy. The interior also exhibits exposed squared joists. Old plank doors with iron hinges and latches are present, along with clasped purlin roofs with exposed wind braces, heavy jowled posts, and rebates for shutters. A large open fireplace is visible in the ground floor room to the east of the door, and in the chamber above the room west of the door, there's a narrower fireplace with a chamfered lintol, chamfered brick jambs and an 18th-century cast iron basket grate with raised figures and garland borders. Wall paintings are said to present outlined flowers in maroon and dark green on a cream ground. The granary is timber-framed and weatherboarded, with a red tile roof and an old plank door with strap hinges and a cat hole on the east end. It now functions as an outhouse with the floor removed. The name, Swangles, references a family appearing in the area in the 14th century.