Valley Farmhouse

Valley Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed and has modern cement render, with a plaintiled roof at the front and a pantiled roof at the rear. The building is two storeys high with an attic and features a main range that has a slightly projecting cross wing to the right. The windows are mid 20th century casements. The main range includes two notable 17th-century dormers with pierced drop finials at the gables, although the dormer windows themselves are mid 20th-century copies of the originals. Inside, there is a fine internal stack with four detached octagonal flues that have bulbous moulded brick bases and protruding pointed bricks at the corners, though the flues have been reduced in height. The farmhouse originally had a lobby entry, and a new red brick entrance porch was under construction on the left-hand gable end at the time of the survey. The interior features exposed framing, with moulded storey posts in one ground floor room and two blocked ovolo-moulded mullioned windows on the first floor.