Dyes Farmhouse

Dyes Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century, with a 20th-century rear wing. It features a timber frame with exposed close-studding, set on a flint and brick plinth with plastered infill, and has steep old red tile roofs. The building is two stories with attics and faces south, showcasing a broad crosswing at the east and a two-story jettied gabled porch. There is a single-story, short rear wing added in the 20th century at the northwest.

Inside, there is a large internal stack located a quarter of the way from the west end, with a staircase rising from the lobby entrance on the south side of the stack. An oven projects from the north jamb of a large open fireplace in the room at the west end, likely the kitchen. To the east of the stack is a longer hall bay with two doors leading into the two-bay east crosswing, which contains two rooms on each floor.

The south front has four windows on each floor, a small attic window in the gabled crosswing, and a porch with a window for the room above, along with an off-center battened door supported by jowled brackets. The lintel features sunk spandrels and chip-carved roundels. The windows are flush casement with small panes, and there is a large chimney with a deep sunk panel between two rectangular shafts.

The interior includes chamfered axial ceiling beams and squared joists, with jowled posts that have rounded chins and curved tension bracing in some partitions. The chimney and entrance are situated in a narrow bay, while the hall is an unusually long bay. The crosswing consists of two bays and has a clasped-purlin roof with collars visible in the attics, featuring long curved arched wind-braces in each bay except the chimney bay. The fireplace in the chamber above the hall has a cambered lintel that is chamfered and stopped, and there is a face halved bladed scarf joint in the wallplate. Dyes Farmhouse is a well-preserved example of a large early 17th-century farmhouse.