Orchard Farmhouse

Orchard Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 18th century and 17th century. The 18th-century section facing the road is constructed of chalk with gault brick dressings and a flint base, topped with a hipped slate roof. This part has one bay and two storeys, featuring a French window with flanking lights beneath a wide skew back arch, and flush sash windows with glazing bars above. The left side has flush sashes with glazing bars on the ground floor and a stair window on the first floor, while the right side has a flush sash on the ground floor and an inserted sash on the first floor.

Attached to the rear is a low 17th-century range made of flint, some of which is galletted with carstone, along with carstone and brick dressings, and a pantile roof. The upper walls have been raised, and there are chimney bays with cells on either side, plus an additional cell to the north. A massive axial stack of gault brick is located below, with red brick above. The west facade features a doorway to the chimney bay with a rustic gabled porch and a boarded door. Windows were inserted around 1982, including three-light casements on either side of the doorway and a two-light casement to the right, all under segmental heads, along with four casement dormers. The bay to the north is made of flint with some dressed limestone quoins and has a low blocked opening, as well as a blocked attic opening on the north return.

The east facade has doorways to the left and casements to the right of the cells flanking the chimney bay, along with two dormers from around 1982. Inside, the 18th-century part has single rooms on the ground and first floors, featuring reeded window frames and reeded surrounds on the ceilings, as well as duck's nest grates, one of which on the first floor has a silhouette of George III. The 17th-century range contains a large central stack made of 5cm bricks, two fireplaces with canted interiors, ogee stopped tie beams, and renewed ceiling joists.