Potash Farmouse

Farmhouse. Dating to the 16th and 17th centuries, with later additions, the building is timber framed and has colourwashed render and a plain tiled roof. It is two storeys high with an attic. The front of the building features a projecting wing on the left, with a blank ground floor and a 3-light casement window on the first floor. The right-hand flank has a 3-light ground-floor casement. The recessed range to the right displays close studding on the first floor, angle braces, and some close studding to the ground floor on the right-hand side. A doorway has a 4-centered head, and the ground floor has two 3-light and one 2-light 19th-century casement windows. The first floor has two 3-light casements, and the attic has a 3-light gabled dormer. A swept valley connects the axial range to the wing, and an axial chimney stack rises from the ridge on the right. A further chimney stack with two flues is situated at the join of the ridges. A two-light 19th-century window is located at the left-hand end, with a pantile-roofed outshut below. A further 2-light gabled dormer is present in the attic to the right. The right-hand gable end shows a deep projecting plinth that rises to the level of the ground floor window's sill, which is of 4 lights. Close studding is present on the ground and first floors, along with arched braces. A 5-light 19th-century casement window on the first floor features ovolo-moulded mullions and a transom that reaches into the gable, which is also close studded. To the right of this is an addition with close studding, jowled wall posts incorporating planted timbers, and a lean-to extension. The rear of the building has two gabled projecting wings on the left, with an outshut in front of them, each featuring a 2-light casement window in the gable. In the axial range, a 2-light casement is on the left, a doorway is on the right, and the right-hand gable wing’s first floor has a 3-light casement. A 2-light gabled dormer is to the left of this, and a cross window is far to the left.

The interior features close studded walling on the ground and first floors. The hall has 17th-century panelling with moulded muntins and cross rails, an inglenook fireplace with a 20th-century brick firehood, and a chamfered bressumer. A staircase of two flights, with a quarter-landing, is also from the 20th century, incorporating earlier timber. The group value context of the listing recognises the building's special architectural or historic interest.