Stradbroke Town Farm

The building is a farmhouse, partly dating to the 15th century and partly to the early 17th century. It is located in Westhall. The farmhouse has a timber-frame construction with rendered walls and a thatched roof featuring a decorated ridge. The higher, 17th-century section of the house includes an internal chimney-stack with a short, plain red brick shaft. There are two 20th-century three-light casement windows with small panes on the ground floor, two eyebrow dormers, and one old, plain three-light window on the upper floor. A 20th-century enclosed gabled porch is located on the north-west side, with a single-storey, 19th-century brick lean-to with a hipped roof and clay pantiles extending beyond it.

The interior reveals four bays. The two northern bays were originally the open hall of a medieval house featuring a crown-post roof. The current entry is positioned where a cross-entry doorway once stood. A ceiling was inserted on the ground floor in the late 16th century. One main cross-beam, reused from an earlier section of the house, retains housings for studs and a diamond-mullioned window. The joists have an unusually large chamfer and curved stops with bar. On the upper floor, tension braces are present on the end wall. The tie-beam of the open truss has been cut but the arched braces remain. The crown-post features a double roll-moulding at the base and a similar triple moulding at the cap, situated below the present upper ceiling level, concealing much of the roof structure.

The 17th-century addition has well-defined studding and reversed braces at the corners. The ground floor and upper ceilings both have a chamfer with run-off stops, with the latter being original. The roof is a side purlin design, largely covered. The chimney-stack contains two back-to-back hearths on the ground floor, with plain timber lintels, and another lintel for an upper fireplace on the south-east side. An internal newel stair beside the stack extends to the attic, retaining its original treads.