Valley Farmhouse

Valley Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, featuring two storeys and originally an attic, with a three-cell internal chimney plan. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with clay pantiles. The front ground floor is faced in 19th-century red brick, laid in Flemish bond. The internal stack has four attached square shafts with moulded corbelling at the heads, and a rectangular base that slopes upwards to the shafts.

The windows are 20th-century casements designed in a traditional style, with three-light and four-light configurations, each having a single horizontal bar. There is a plank door leading to a 20th-century enclosed and gabled porch made of red brick and pantiles. Inside, the farmhouse showcases good framing; the parlour features an ovolo-moulded main beam with scroll-stops and a bar, along with joists that have scroll-stops and jewels. The hall, spanning one and a half bays, has plain, wide, unchamfered joists spaced no wider than the joists themselves. There are two back-to-back hearths with plain timber lintels.

On the upper floor, one truss retains arched braces, while the others have been removed. Above the parlour, small solid braces support the main cross-beam. Notable details include a face halved and bladed scarf joint in the wall-plate, as well as the slides and housings for diamond mullioned windows. The upper ceilings are likely later additions, and the roof has not been examined.