Charity Farmhouse

Charity Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was formerly a small manor house, dating from the early 15th century with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of timber framing and brick, covered with colourwashed render, and has a plain tiled roof that was probably originally thatched. The building has two storeys and an attic, and it was originally designed with a central open hall flanked by two-storey wings on either side.

The entrance front features a slightly projecting wing on the left, which has a three-light casement window at ground floor level, dating from the 19th century, as does all the window fenestration. The jettied first floor has a similar window, and the gable is jettied with a blocked two-light window. To the right, the hall range includes a gabled porch on the left with a half-glazed door, and to the right of the porch are three three-light casements at ground floor level. The first floor also has three three-light casements. At the ridge, slightly left of centre, there is a 17th-century stack with two flues. The right gable end has a three-light window at ground floor level, a two-light window to the right on the first floor, and a similar two-light window in the attic.

At the rear, there is a projecting outshut with a catslide roof on the left, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, which has a half-glazed door on both the right and left sides. To the right of this outshut, slightly recessed, is a wing with a three-light casement at ground floor level and a two-light casement on the first floor. To the left, at first floor level, there is a two-light flat-roofed dormer window. There is a two-flue stack on the left side.

Inside, the ground floor room in the northern wing features a heavily-moulded beam that may have been brought from elsewhere. The southern end of the ground floor has further decorated axial ceiling joists. The central two-bay hall displays moulded wall posts visible on both floors and a massive cambered tie beam supporting the central truss. In the attic, there is an octagonal crown-post with slightly cavetto sides, a richly moulded cap and base, and four arched braces connecting to a common rafter and the crown purlin. At either end of the attic are terminal square crown posts with additional single arched braces. The interior shows signs of soot blackening.