Fen Farmhouse

Fen Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1500. It is constructed with a timber frame, featuring rendered wattle and daub infill, and has a thatched roof. The building has an open hall plan that was floored in the 17th century and consists of two storeys and an attic. There is a long outshut added in the 19th century, made of brick and pantiles.

On the first floor, there is one two-light timber mullioned window with plain chamfered mullions, along with three late 20th-century plastic casements. The gabled roof has a ridge stack located to the left of the center. The west gable wall is bricked up to the first floor and features a drip shelf and two late 20th-century casements similar to those on the front. The rear elevation is obscured by a 20th-century glazed and pantiled outshut, which has four 20th-century plastic casements in the original openings.

Inside, the main room has a chamfered bridging beam with tongue stops from the 17th century, along with similar joists. There is an open Flemish bond brick fireplace with a bressummer and a winder staircase next to the stack. The heavy scantling studwork includes a middle rail, and there is a four-centred timber door in the first-floor east room, with tension bracing at the corners. The tie beam features arched braces, and the roof has queen struts (which have been replaced), collars, clasped purlins, a ridge piece, and wind bracing. The ground floor east room has late 20th-century close studding, but the sole plate and middle rail mortices indicate that it originally had the same layout as the current structure.