Fenn Farmhouse

House. Built in the 16th century in two phases, with an early 19th-century extension and alterations. It is a colourwashed and plastered timber-framed building with a pantile roof and a brick ridge stack. Decorative barge boards are present. The house follows a 3-unit plan, with a rear wing creating an L-shaped layout. It has two storeys. The main front has a three-window range at the first floor, featuring 6/6 sash windows. Below are four similar windows. On the left end is a 2-light casement above a 6/6 sash. On the right end are two 6/6 sashes on each floor, with a lower rear wing projecting to the right. This wing incorporates a triple sash window and 3/6 sashes, alongside an open porch with a flat hood and a 6-panel door with windows to its sides. The rear elevation features additional sashes and casements, alongside a single-storey extension that partially fills the L-shape.

Inside, the south end of the house contains a unit with exposed, unchamfered ceiling joists of large dimensions, likely from the early 16th century. In the central hall unit (now a large room incorporating the left unit), bridging beams and joists display broader chamfers with run-out stops. An 18th or early 19th-century brick fireplace reuses a truncated chamfered bressumer. Some 16th-century framing is visible in a cupboard on the stairs. The roof space reveals framed gable walls, probably from the early 19th century, and a roof of a similar date that reuses smoke-blackened joists likely from the earlier roof. In the rear wing, the bridging beams and joists are made of pine.

Fenn farmhouse represents an evolved farmhouse combining elements from the 16th and early 19th centuries, with substantial surviving features from both periods. It forms a good farmstead group with two barns approximately 30 metres to the north-east and a cartshed approximately 40 metres to the north.