Barnfield Cottages, pump, front wall and entrance gates

The Barnfield Cottages comprise a group of almshouses built around 1925-27 to the designs of Maurice Chesterton. The buildings are constructed of painted pale pink brick with a reed thatched roof.

The almshouses face south-east onto the road and are arranged in a shallow U-shape, with a central pump. The single-storey buildings are in the Picturesque revival style. They have a low, half-hipped thatched roof with a thickened ridge featuring a scalloped edge and decorative sways. Six tall red brick chimney stacks with oversailing courses rise from the ridge; most have been repaired or rebuilt to the original design. The central range consists of four cottages, each with three bays, accessed by shallow, semi-circular brick steps, some of which have been repaired. The original timber front doors have six glazed upper panels and retain cast-iron handles and letter boxes. They are sheltered by porches with conical thatched roofs supported by two square timber pillars, and fitted timber benches on each side. The doors are flanked by three-light casement windows with tile sills, which have plastic-faced metal frames replicating original leaded lights and timber shutters, painted white, pierced with a single diamond shape. The end cottages have two windows on their inner faces, and the short return walls are lit by a four-light casement window with a keyed, semi-circular brick relieving arch. The front doors of the end cottages are on the rear elevations, flanked by uPVC windows lacking the replica leaded lights. The rear elevations of the central cottages have subsidiary features. Later flat-roofed brick porches have been added with stairs leading up to the back doors, which have nine glazed upper panels, and uPVC windows.

Internally, nos. 94 and 95 were inspected in 2013. The front doors open into a small hall with a tiled floor, leading to a sitting room and bedroom, with a kitchen and bathroom behind, both with modern fittings. A number of plank and batten doors, fitted cupboard doors, iron latches, and strap hinges survive. Tiled window sills and a dado rail are present in the bedroom of no. 94. The original fireplaces have been removed and lower ceilings inserted.

A pump is centrally positioned on a circular brick base, sheltered by a conical thatched canopy supported by four square timber pillars. Opposite the pump, to the south-east, is a low red brick wall with square gate piers (now overgrown) and timber gates.