Dairy Farmhouse

Dairy Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, with later additions. It has two storeys and attics in part, and two storeys and one and a half storeys in the remainder. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, with clay pantiles on the main range. The lower part on the west side is made of late 19th-century red brick, featuring a dentil cornice and black glazed pantiles. On the east side, there is a red brick gable-end that includes a chimney-stack, with the bricks laid in English Bond, showing signs of alteration and repair. A later doorway and window have been added, and a small original window with brick mullions has been blocked. A later chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft is located at the junction of the two halves of the house.

At the west end, there is a small 18th-century timber-framed wing that projects forward, rendered and covered with black glazed pantiles, which previously had a cellar below. The farmhouse features old three-light casement windows with transoms, pintle hinges, and hooks for former external shutters, as well as a door with four flush panels, two of which are glazed. Inside, there is good plain timbering exposed, mainly on the upper floor, with arched braces in the side walls, some blocked original windows, and a main beam on the ground floor that has ovolo-moulding. The roof is in five bays, with clasped and unstepped butt purlins and cambered collars.

The basic plan appears to be a two-cell end chimney house, with the present entry in its original position. However, the arrangement at the west end is unclear; a deep, narrow beam in front of the stack on each floor and a small section of framing beyond suggest that the house extended further westward, likely with a smoke-bay. The late 19th-century extension further west is a reconstruction of earlier timber-framing, featuring a chimney-stack that contains 17th and 18th-century bricks, as well as an unusual pair of faggot ovens, one above the other, which predate the brick exterior.