Creake Abbey Farmhouse

Creake Abbey Farmhouse is a Grade I listed building that incorporates remains of the domestic buildings of Creake Abbey. It dates from the medieval period and the early 19th century. The structure is built from ashlar and rubble stone, flint, and brick, topped with red pantiled roofs. The farmhouse is two storeys tall and has an 'L' shape, forming part of the east and south ranges of the monastic cloister.

The early 19th-century south front features three ground floor tripartite sash windows with glazing bars set in stone architraves, along with five first floor sashes with glazing bars. There is an off-axis gabled single-storey porch that includes a 15th-century four-centred double hollow chamfered arch with colonnettes, bases, and capitals, as well as sub-cusping to the inner arch, an ogee apex, and a finial. The building has set-off angle buttresses and north and south lancets, with one axial stack.

The rear wall facing the cloister has one ground floor partly blocked three-light Gothic-headed window and two first floor stone window embrasures. A single-storey wing attached to the west has three sashes with glazing bars and one axial stack. The rear wall to the cloister features one complete 15th-century single lancet, one lancet head only, one four-centred door arch, and one two-centred door arch.

The east range, aligned with the south transept of the church, has four ground floor and four first floor windows. On the south side, there is one ground floor Gothic arched head two-light casement and two first floor sashes. On the north side, there are one ground floor two-light and one three-light Gothic lancet windows, one two-light casement, and two first floor sashes. A central straight joint division is present, while the returned north gable has stone quoins, a blocked first floor two-light 15th-century window, and an external chimney breast with a stack. The west return to the cloister has one ground floor three-light and one blocked first floor two-light Gothic window. A straight joint at the middle of the east front of this range suggests the incorporation of a complete monastic building in two bays to the north. The farmhouse has one eaves and one ridge stack, all of mid-19th century brick with octagonal shafts, rectangular plinths, and copings.