Abbey Farmhouse

Abbey Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the mid to late 16th century. It has two storeys and is constructed with a timber frame that is rendered, topped with 20th-century concrete plain tiles and decorated ridge tiles. The building features an internal chimney stack with a short, plain rebuilt red brick shaft, along with a later external end stack. The windows include various three-light casements with transoms, and on the upper rear wall, there is one six-light and one smaller three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window, as well as a four-light diamond-mullioned window.

The house has a colour-washed brick porch from the 20th century, which is gabled and includes a half-glazed door. Inside, the layout consists of five bays, with the middle bay having been completely altered to create a hallway and a 20th-century stair. This area may have originally featured a cross-entry with a chimney stack to heat one of the ground-floor rooms. Each side of the house contains a two-bay room with a fine main beam that is ovolo-moulded and has additional fillets along the soffit. On the right side, the exposed joists have stop-chamfer and lamb's tongue stops, while on the left side, there are two sections of reused timber screen that are similar but not identical in design, featuring long panels and a middle rail to divide the room into two.

There is a noticeable join in both wall plates above the central hallway, suggesting that the two halves of the house may have been built at slightly different times. The roof above the left side has plain queen-posts with thin arched braces connecting to the arcade plates and collars, which are set on distinctly cambered tie beams supported by heavy arched braces. The upper ceilings in this section are a later addition, while in the other half of the house, a straight tie beam and joists set flat on the upper floor indicate that this may be an original ceiling. The roof above is not accessible. Overall, the house is small but very well framed, featuring close studding and various types of braces, including arched, reversed, and partly cranked.