The Farmhouse

The Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-19th century, with an earlier rear range. It is located on West Road, West Caister. The front range is built of Flemish bond brick with vitrified headers, featuring a black glazed pantile roof with coped verges and a projecting brick eaves course. Brick axial and gable-end stacks are present. The rear outshut is of English bond brick, incorporating earlier brick and flint walls, and incorporates what appear to be the remains of an even earlier building at its right-hand end. A lower, single-story outshut with double doors is located at the left-hand end, set at an angle to the front range.

The mid-19th century front range has a two-story, two-room plan with a central entrance hall. The symmetrical three-window front features a central doorway and window positioned slightly left of centre. The windows are double-sashed without glazing bars, set under rusticated segmental brick arches with headmoulds. The central first-floor window has a single sash above. A large Doric porch with fluted columns supports a pedimented canopy with triglyphs in the frieze and mutules under the cornice of the entablature, sheltering a 19th-century panelled and moulded door with a rectangular overlight.

The rear wall of the outshut is of English bond brick, with earlier brick-on-edge header bond in the lower courses. To the left is earlier random bond small bricks. Flint rubble is visible in the left-end wall of the outshut, where a blocked pointed arch opening is set in brick. The small outshut and adjoining garden wall at this end also feature early brick and flint rubble. The rear elevation has circa late 19th or early 20th century two-light casements and a doorway displaying what is likely a re-used pediment.

The interior has not been inspected, but the 19th-century joinery is reportedly original. The left-hand front room contains a mid-19th century fireplace, and the right-hand front room has a moulded plaster cornice. Earlier features may be present in the back range.