Gurneys

Gurneys is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. The east wing dates back to the early 16th century, while the hall range was rebuilt and the west wing was added in the early 17th century. The building underwent modernisation in the early 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame on a black stuccoed plinth, roughcast walls, and steep old red tile roofs, with some tile hanging on the first floor at the rear.

This U-shaped house has two storeys and attics, set in its own grounds and facing south, with crosswings that do not project to the front. There are lean-to and gabled rear extensions that are in keeping with the original design. The south front has four windows, with a projecting gabled porch located below the second window from the west, aligned with a large internal chimney that has pilaster strips. The windows are flush casement style with dripboards above, featuring rectangular leaded glazing and iron plate casements. Most windows have three lights, except for the attic in the west wing gable, which has two lights, and the ground floor of the east wing, which has four lights.

The porch, which has a reused 18th-century doorcase, features an open pediment, a semi-circular head, a radial fanlight, flanking pilasters, and a six-panel fielded door with the top two panels glazed. There is a large projecting chimney on the east side of the east wing. Inside, the building has exposed timbers, with the east wing showcasing close-studding and a clasped-purlin roof, along with chamfered cross and axial beams that support the floor. There is a staircase at the rear of the wing.

The hall range, rebuilt in the early 17th century, replaced a medieval hall to which the east wing was added. This narrow structure retains an original axial floor beam and has a rectangular fireplace at the west end. The clasped-purlin roof structure shows no signs of smoke blackening. There is no staircase in the hall range, and the lobby entrance by the stack provides access to the hall and the contemporary west wing, which has its own rear staircase at the northeast. The west wing features a clasped-purlin roof with long straight wind-braces, and the fireplace heating the ground floor of the west wing, which backs onto the main stack added in the later 17th century, has a curved back and shaped jambs. The building was formerly known as North Farm.