Home Farmhouse

Home Farmhouse is a late 16th and early 17th century farmhouse constructed originally with a 3-cell lobby-entrance plan to the main range, and a cross-wing added later to the north. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with a black glazed pantile roof and ornamental ridge tiles. The chimney stack is brick, with a plain red brick shaft. A dormer window is contained within a high gabled projection featuring a carved and moulded tie-beam, pierced and fluted bargeboards, and a spike finial. Similar bargeboards and finials are present on the other gables. It has old 3-light and 4-light casement windows with transoms, as well as some replacement 3-light casements. A colour-washed brick porch, enclosed and gabled, was added in the 19th century. The south gable, facing the road, is also in colour-washed brick, featuring moulded corbels, a moulded base to a former finial at the apex of the roof, and a 3-light window to the attic storey with cavetto-moulded brick mullions. There are two similar blocked 2-light windows to the upper floor, and a similar blocked 5-light window to the ground floor. The interior was not inspected, but the timbers are reportedly covered. The attics are now sealed off and the roof is inaccessible.