Wood Farmhouse

Wood Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse with 18th-century additions, located on the North Pickenham Road in Swaffham. The original north-south range dates to the early 17th century, with a brick facade added in the early 18th century, alongside further 18th-century extensions. The south front is built of red brick in English and Flemish bond, with pantiled roofs throughout.

The house is one storey and attic, with a central six-panelled door within a timber doorcase featuring fluted pilasters, a plain frieze, and a hood. There is a 3-light casement window to each side of the door, and evidence of blocked 18th-century windows. The gabled roof has two dormers with 2-light fixed windows. A large central brick stack has a rectangular plinth carrying three octagonal flues with star tops and evolved from an earlier gable-end stack on the rear wing. Sections of the east gable have tumbled, while the west gable was rebuilt around 1830, both gable ends featuring 19th-century casement windows.

The early 17th-century rear wing, also running north-south, includes an outshut with a catslide roof on the east side, and a two-storey gabled 18th-century extension to the left. The west side of the rear wing is plastered and colourwashed, with 20th-century casement windows on each floor and a gabled roof with a flat-topped dormer fitted with an early 18th-century leaded casement. A mid-18th-century brick two-storey extension, of one window bay, is set under a hipped roof to the north. The north gable is constructed of flint and re-used ashlar, bearing the dates 1623 and 1632, and includes an internal gable-end stack.

The interior of the original 17th-century range retains exposed timber studs of medium scantling, a chamfered bridging beam with tongue stops on the ground floor, and a boxed bridging beam in the east extension with wave and reeded mouldings. The front range has a bridging beam with sunk-quadrant mouldings and roll moulding on the underside. A stick-baluster staircase features a ramped handrail. A bolection-moulded early 18th-century chimneypiece is present on the first floor of the rear wing. The roof of the rear wing shows principals, two tiers of butt purlins, and two early 17th-century upper crucks with spurs to wall plates.