NUMBERS 10, 12/14, 16 AND 18 (WATERHALL FARM)

A farmhouse and adjacent estate house, now divided into four separate residences, displays a complex construction history from the 16th century or earlier. The original core is a north-east facing crosswing. During the 17th century, a western extension was added to the crosswing, along with the northern bay of a hall range, rebuilt to two storeys. In the early 18th century, the western extension was heightened and a three-bay block was added to the west, projecting onto the south side. Simultaneously, the southern and middle bays of the hall range were also rebuilt. A mid-18th century estate house was constructed on the roadside, connected via a low linking block to the south. The mid-19th century saw the hall range face a brick casing, while the late 19th century witnessed the application of false half-timbering to the south face of the north range. A later 20th-century rebuild of the north end of the estate house (No. 18) completes the structure.

The building presents as a two-storey, Z-shaped arrangement. The oldest section is a two-bay, two-storey crosswing, adjoined to the south by a rebuilt hall range. The hall range was originally a 16-story building. A three-bay, two-storey early 18th-century timber-framed range projects on the south front, positioned west of the crosswing and subsequently heightened to two stories. The western-facing estate house, having a central entrance, is connected at the south end by a lower two-storey, two-window-wide linking block. The western side of the hall range features three first-floor windows and four ground-floor windows. Doors to No. 10 and No. 12/14 are located at the south end. Two-light flush casement windows are prevalent. The north range incorporates six, three-light flush casement windows on each floor, alongside two lobby-entry doors. No. 16 extends into the southern end bay of the brick fronted range. This section has a higher northern part with two windows on each floor. The north range displays three-light flush casements on the first floor and a blocked doorway with a half-glazed door to No. 18 above. Gauged flat arches and dentilled corbelled eaves courses are visible. Cambered arches frame the ground floor sash windows, recessed on the left-hand side and flush on the right. The lower southern portion features a corbelled dentilled eaves course, with single recessed sash windows on the left and a wide segmental arched recess with a three-light flush casement and a canted bay window with small panes and a moulded cornice on the right.

Inside the north-east crosswing, original features remain, including heavy timber scantling, window shutter grooves, a curved tension brace in the sidewall, heavy jowled posts, cambered tie-beams and collars, and a two-bay clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces. The east gable was altered to a hip roof, and stepped jowled posts and old wallplates are still present in the heightened western extension, alongside an unjowled post and side-purlin roof. A chamfered axial beam with hollow stops is found in the north bay of the hall range.