Street Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the late 15th and early 16th centuries to the rear, the main range was built in the late 16th century, with extensions added to the left in the 18th century and later remodelling to the right-hand side. The building is timber framed with plastered walls, the plaster largely imitating the appearance of ashlar. The main range has a slated roof, the right-hand wing a plaintiled roof, and the earlier rear range a pantiled roof. The property has two storeys and originally two windows to the main range. Good 18th-century 3-light and 6-light mullion and transom casement windows with square leaded panes are present, with the two centre lights bowed. A lobby entrance features a 6-panel raised and fielded door, a frieze, cornice, and a triangular pediment; there is an internal stack. To the right is a lower range set forward, featuring a hipped roof and two window bays with full-height canted bays and mainly 20th-century windows. The rear features a 3-bay late medieval range, originally jettied on three sides. Internally, a section of the jetty remains visible, along with a carved bressummer and part of an original doorway with carved spandrels and a damaged sill of a ground-floor oriel window. This part of the building has good internal timbering and a crown post roof with a moulded cap on the crown post. On the first floor of the main range is a portion of a late 17th-century fresco depicting two scenes based on the fall of Troy; a later staircase interrupts the fresco, accessed through an unusual door which is curved to form a quarter circle. The building retains original timbering and features a crown post roof. The property was once the residence of the 18th-century diarist William Goodwin.