Fenn Farmhouse

Fenn Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, altered around 1600 and restored in the 20th century. It features a timber-framed and brick construction with a rendered finish and a tiled roof. The building has a three-cell, lobby entrance plan, with a continuous jetty on the rear wall suggesting that the house has been reversed. It stands 2½ storeys tall and was formerly equipped with cellars.

On the entrance front, all windows have been replaced with diamond mullioned casements, some of which include leaded lights. The ground floor features five-light casements on either side of a 20th-century porch and door. The first floor has a three-light casement in the middle bay and a five-light casement to the right. There are two dormers positioned closely on either side of the stack, which has been rebuilt as a multiple saw tooth axial stack. The rear of the house has three ground floor and two first floor casements, similar to those at the front, along with one dormer. The entrance is through a lower range attached to the southeast, which was formerly used as kitchens and is now utilized for storage and as a garage.

Inside, the right-hand parlour on the ground floor features an early 17th-century plastered ceiling from the Ipswich school, decorated with putti, fleur de lys, roses, and pendant bunches of grapes, set between an ovolo moulded longitudinal beam and a roll moulded lateral beam. The hall contains deep roll and hollow chamfered moulded beams and roll moulded joists. There is a chamfered bressummer, which may have been replaced, and a pair of heavy jowled storey posts that were formerly braced to the tie-beam. These support a quadrate crown post with longitudinal and formerly lateral braces, while a second square crown post is likely not in its original position and has been heavily restored.