Poplar Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the 16th century, it is timber framed with colourwashed render, dated on a roundel on the front of the house to 1755. The roof is covered with machine-made pantiles, previously thatched. The farmhouse is two storeys high. The front has a doorway on the right-hand side with four lower panels and one upper glazed panel. A 19th-century gabled porch with lattice trellises stands in front of the doorway. To the right of the doorway is a 2-light casement window from the 20th century, and to the left are two 3-light casements also from the 19th century. The first floor has two 3-light 19th-century casement windows. The original pargetting on the front featured woolknot patterns, now overlaid by later patching. A section of brickwork is visible at the left of centre, possibly indicating a blocked doorway. The roof is hipped with a central chimney stack of three flues, featuring decorative bands. A 3-light 19th-century casement window is situated at the right-hand end and a single window on the left-hand side. A projecting gabled wing is situated slightly to the right of centre on the rear, which has 20th-century fenestration including a single-light window at the right and a cross window above. It may have originally served as a staircase or porch wing. Further 20th-century windows are present on the left flank and a 19th-century lean-to with brick walling at the right, featuring a plank door on the left and a 3-light casement window on the right. A chimney stack with two flues runs along the ridge. A 3-light 20th-century casement window and a half-glazed 20th-century door are located on the left-hand side, with blank walling above. Inside, a screen passage has moulded muntins without cross rails. A large room displays beams with mortice holes, indicative of two former service rooms, though much of the timberwork has been altered. The hall has a chamfered bressumer with end stops, a central ceiling beam with shallow chamfers and die-out end stops, jowled wall posts, and close studding on the walls with wattle-and-daub infill. The first floor rooms also feature close studding. Further rooms contain a basked-arched fireplace and a blocked window, along with jowled wall posts and cambered ties with arched braces.