Stagenhoe Bottom Farmhouse

Stagenhoe Bottom Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1710, with a rear catslide outshut added in the 18th century and renovations including twin gables to the rear outshut from the 1840s. The building is constructed of red brick with numerous blue bricks and red dressings, topped with steep old red tile roofs, while the outshut and its gables have a slated roof.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with attics and a cellar, set back from the road and facing west. It features a two-cell layout with end chimneys and a central entrance. The west front has a plinth, a plat-band, and projecting eaves with a plastered soffit supported by moulded brick corbels leading to a moulded gable parapet at each end. The symmetrical front has three windows, with flush-box sashes on the first floor featuring 6/6 panes and segmental arches. The central entrance is accessed by four steps and has a six-panel, half-glazed early 19th-century door beneath a canted Gothic timber porch with a hipped tile roof.

On each side of the entrance are semi-octagonal brick bays with hipped tiled roofs and sash windows, which were added in the early 19th century and are not bonded to the front. There are two gabled casement dormers on the roof slope, and at each gable end, there are two massive external chimneys with offsets that form closets at each floor level, complete with windows. The rear of the house has two gabled dormers.

Inside, the layout is plain, featuring axial beams in the first-floor front rooms and an original bolection moulded fire surround with a cornice-shelf and block in the northwest room. The upper flight of the staircase leading to the attic retains its original closed string with ogee pendants on square newels, a moulded deep rail, and serpentine splat balusters. The front attic rooms have two-panel doors with H-hinges, while the rear two rooms have moulded plank doors. The lower flight of the staircase from the 19th century has a cut string and stick balusters. The entrance hall boasts a splendid polychrome encaustic tile floor, and the ground floor generally has six-panel moulded 19th-century doors. The outshut at the centre rear features a heavy cross-beam and heavy exposed joists.