Castle Farmhouse

Castle Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with a late medieval core. It is 1½ storeys tall and has a three-cell layout. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with clay pantiles. A large 20th-century porch is located at the front, featuring a shallow single-pitch roof that extends into the main roof. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft. The exterior includes three 2-light casement windows with a single bar to the lights, one upper casement, and a gabled dormer, along with a 20th-century plank door.

Inside, the timbers are exposed, and both ends of the house feature rough, heavy, plain joists of medieval type in the ground floor rooms. However, the two-bay central room has been significantly remodeled. The chamfered main beam of the ceiling has been inserted into posts that show empty mortices for long arched braces, and the chimney stack intrudes into one of the two bays, causing the main beam to be off-center. On the upper rear wall, there are remains of a long 4-light hall window with diamond mullions still in place. The two central bays boast a well-crafted late 16th-century replacement roof with clasped purlins and windbraces, while other parts of the roof show considerable replacement of components, including some reused smoke-blackened rafters. A small section of a painted frieze with arabesques in red ochre remains on the wall of the central room.