Farmhouse At Lords Farm

The farmhouse at Lords Farm is a house dating from the late medieval period, originally an open hall house. It was raised in the late 17th century, with extensions added to the north and west during the same period. A lean-to brick extension was built in the late 18th or early 19th century, and a two-storey brick block was added to the northwest angle in the mid-19th century. The house is timber-framed on a stucco plinth, with roughcast to the front and red brick replacing parts of the ground floor on the east side. A red brick lean-to and the mid-19th century brick block are also present. It has steep red tile roofs. The house is a two-storey arrangement with an entrance on the east side. The southeast wing has two windows on each floor and a four-panel door to the right. The ground floor windows are flush box sashes with a moulded architrave and 6/6 panes, while the first floor has flush 20th-century windows. The north extension is set back, with two small-paned pivoting windows on the first floor and a three-light flush casement window on the ground floor, alongside a boarded door under a tiled porch in the angle of the wings. A large internal gable chimney is present on the southeast wing, with a catslide outshut to the rear. The north wing has an external gable chimney. The southwest extension has flush-box casement windows on each floor with a moulded architrave and 8/8 panes. An external gable chimney is present on the west gable. The brick northwest wing contains an entrance hall, parlour, and stair hall, with bedrooms above. It has two recessed sash windows with 8/8 panes to the first floor. A similar window is located under a segmental arch to the left of a four-panel door with a rectangular fanlight and two steps leading under a light metal canopy. Floor beams inserted in the hall have elaborate stop-chamfered stops with a bar and small notch. A fireplace from the 18th century is present in the southwest extension, featuring a moulded marble shelf. The northeast wing exhibits jowled posts and straight braces, with face-halved bladed scarf joints in the wallplate.