Poplar Farmhouse

Poplar Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with later 17th, 18th, and probably early 19th-century extensions. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with colourwashed brick and plain tile roofs. The north-south range has a hipped end. The complex plan consists of an east-west wing likely dating to the late 16th century, a roughly contemporary north-south range forming an L-shape, a later 17th-century former dairy/kitchen (originally freestanding but now linked by an 18th-century timber-framed outshut), and later brick service ranges. A late 18th or early 19th-century brick front and rear have been added. The house is mostly two storeys high. Windows are scattered, consisting of 20th-century casements, some with small panes and some leaded. There is a 20th-century brick porch with a partly glazed door on the west front. 19th-century brick stacks are present, including one axial on the east-west range and one on the lateral wall of the north-south range.

Inside the north-south range, the ground floor has bar-stopped main beams and joists. On the first floor is a diamond mullion window and shutter groove. The roof is a clasped purlin roof with one tier of collars; it was largely rebuilt in the 19th century, though reusing some earlier timbers. The east-west range has a blocked doorway on the north side, a rendered four-centre arched fireplace (likely brick with chamfered arrises), and a clasped purlin roof with one tier of collars, along with later rafters and a ridge piece.