Hatton'S Farmhouse

Hatton's Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the late 15th century. It has two storeys and a basic three-cell plan with a central open hall. The building is timber-framed with a colour-washed brick front and rendered sides and rear, topped with 20th-century single Roman tiles. It features an internal chimney-stack and an end stack, both with plain red brick shafts.

The farmhouse has three-light old casement windows with pintle hinges, three on the upper floor and four on the ground floor, all set in deep reveals. A plank door is located under a cast iron open porch roof. Inside, the upper part of the partition at the lower end of the hall remains, showcasing close-studding above a beam adorned with a single row of embattled ornament. The beam also contains housings for two service doorways.

The two-bay hall features an open truss with a marked camber to the tie-beam, supported by deep, plank-like arched braces. The tie-beam has ogee-moulding, while the braces have cavetto moulding. The crown-post roof has a post that is moulded at both the cap and base, braced in four ways at the head.

A high ceiling over the hall was inserted in the mid-16th century, featuring multiple roll-mouldings on the heavy cross-beams and around the cornice. At the lower end, slots and mortices in the soffit of a main beam indicate that a high screen was added at the same time as the ceiling, creating a complete cross-passage entry into the house. Part of this screen, with roll-moulding surrounding long recessed panels, has been relocated to the upper floor.

The internal chimney-stack was inserted between the hall and the parlour, just within the upper bay of the hall. It features a large open fireplace with a plain lintel on the parlour side and a plain main beam, which is mutilated. Close studding and arched braces at a steep angle are visible on the upper floor.