Homestead

Homestead is a house dating from around 1600, with later alterations. It features a pebbledashed and whitewashed timber frame topped with a thatched hipped roof. There is a brick stack located off-centre on the ridge. The house has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high, with a two-window range of 2-light casements on both floors, plus a small single light window in the centre of the ground floor. Additional windows are located in outshuts at both ends, each with tile roofs, and the right outshut includes a brick stack. The rear of the house has more casements and doors, along with a thatched outshut behind the stack.

Inside, the timber frame is mostly hidden behind later linings, but one jowled post is visible with an exposed tenon. There is a chamfered bridging beam in the western room with ogee stops at the stack end, and a chamfered transverse bridging beam in the longer eastern room. The roof features two part-closed queen post trusses that form the stack bay, with some triangular-section purlins still intact. One 18th-century truss has a collar that is lap-jointed and nailed to the principal rafters, while another truss has short principal rafters connected below the ridge with a collar. Crossed bracing, likely from the 18th century, is also present. Overall, Homestead is a relatively unaltered house from its period.