Blue Tile Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, likely built in two phases, around 1500 at the east end and then again around 1600 at the west end. The farmhouse is constructed of flint with brick dressings, with brick gables at both the east and west ends, and a black glazed pantiled roof. It is two storeys high, with single-storey lean-to additions acting as a garderobe at both the east and west sides, and a two-storey addition and lean-to to the north, forming an 'L' shape on the plan. There are five windows on both the ground and first floors. On the west side of the ground floor are two casement windows added in the mid-20th century. The centre and east of the ground floor have three 19th-century wooden cross windows. The first floor has five 2-light casement windows, with some surviving brick dressings of earlier window openings at the west and centre. A six-panel door with architrave was inserted in the mid-20th century. A straight joint at the east side marks the division between the two builds, noticeable by the exposed brick quoins. The east gable is brick and incorporates a garderobe tower, which has been cut back at ground floor level, with a chamfered and skewed corner. The first floor of the east gable has a single light casement. Brick kneelers, a coped parapet, and two joined partly octagonal stacks are present. The west gable has a single 2-light wooden mullioned window to illuminate the staircase to the north. There’s also a lean-to garderobe and two gable-level fire windows, one with a wooden framed 2-light mullioned window. The west gable also features brick kneelers, a coped parapet and two octagonal stacks. The rear east side has a dovecote set into the eaves. The interior has largely been rebuilt in the mid-20th century, except for sections within the two gable ends. The roof has butt purlins, diagonal wind bracing, and collars. Sections of brick stairs may survive at the west end, now covered by wooden treads.