Orchard Farmhouse

Orchard Farmhouse, marked on the Ordnance Survey map as 'Birchams Farm', is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell lobby entrance layout. The building is timber-framed, plastered, and covered with clay pantiles. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain rebuilt shaft made of old red brick, which has a small empty recessed panel with a moulded surround at its base.

The ground floor has three old cross windows, while the upper floor has two old cross windows and one plain two-light casement window. There are also two gabled dormers, each with plain two-light casement windows. Above the entrance, there is an original three-light diamond-mullioned window, and on the upper floor at the rear, there are two more mullioned windows: one is three-light with ovolo moulding, and the other is four-light with the outer moulding removed.

An early 19th-century gabled porch, which is rendered and pantiled, features an arched opening. Inside, the entrance doorway has a pointed Gothic arch and a door with two matching half-glazed leaves that include Gothic tracery. The main beams are visible inside, and there is a newel stair located by the stack. At the north end of the farmhouse, there is a 19th-century single-storey lean-to made of red brick with a pantiled roof that projects forward beyond the main front; this structure is currently unoccupied and becoming derelict.