Vale Farm House

Vale Farm House is a house dating from around 1600 and the 17th century, with later alterations. It features a rendered timber-frame structure and pantile roofs, with brick central ridge stacks. The building consists of two ranges set at right angles; one is a two-unit lobby-entry plan, while the other is a three-unit range, likely a slightly later service range. The main range has two storeys and an attic, with a three-window arrangement of three-light mullion and transom windows. The ground floor has similar windows, with a single-light window in the center. The left end, which is of brick and added later, includes a three-light horizontal sliding sash window in the attic. The rear has two- and three-light windows, including a two-light horizontal sliding sash and an original three-light diamond mullion window, which likely retains 17th-century diamond-leaded glazing, a rare survival, although it is blocked behind. The right end features a three-light attic casement and a single-storey extension that connects to the other range, which is two storeys high. This range also has a three-window arrangement of three-light casements on the upper floor, similar to those on the ground floor, with a part-glazed door to the center left and a single-light window on either side.

Inside the two-unit range, both ground floor beams are encased, but a first-floor room features an ogee-stop-chamfer beam. The fireplace openings have been altered, but the stack remains. There is a two-flight newel stair that is likely original, along with several 18th-century doors. The roof is intact, featuring a lower row of butt purlins and an upper row of wind-braced clasped purlins. The other range has plain joists set flat in one ground floor room and a reused mid-17th-century spine beam in another.