Baileys Farmhouse

Baileys Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 16th century, featuring a gabled crosswing in the middle, a 17th-century eastern range, and a late 17th-century two-bay western range. There is also a contemporary three-bay former stable extending to the west. The building has a timber frame with roughcast and red brick casing on the ground floor at the front, while the former stable is dark weatherboarded. The rear of the house is tile-hung with stucco on the ground floor, and it has steep old red tile roofs.

This long, irregular two-storey house faces north, with a lower single-storey stable extending to the west. The two-bay crosswing, which was formerly jettied to the north, likely had its open hall to the east replaced by the current eastern range in the 17th century. The entrance is through a gabled porch beside the crosswing on the east side, leading into a hall with a heated inner room at the eastern end. The floors are supported by cross-beams and axial joists.

To the west of the crosswing, there is a large external chimney, and a late 17th-century extension with an oven built into a wedge-shaped mass of brickwork at the rear of its western bay, which was presumably under a lean-to that has been replaced by the current sunroom. These domestic arrangements suggest that the crosswing has always served as a service wing, although there is a cellar under the eastern range.

The windows are two- and three-light flush casements, and there is a large external chimney on the eastern gable. Inside, the crosswing features heavy flat joists on the floor and trimming for a stair along the rear wall. The upper floor has a central partition, cambered tie-beams on curved braces, and curved windbraces to the purlin on each slope of the clasped-purlin roof. The eastern range has swept jowled posts, straight braces to tie-beams, and a clasped-purlin roof on collars, which are ceiled under the collars. The western range has unjowled posts, straight braces, and a clasped-purlin roof.