Dennys Farmhouse

Denny's Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from around 1600, with an early 16th-century core. It features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan that has been in place since the 17th century and stands two storeys tall with attics. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a plaintiled roof that includes an axial chimney made of red brick; the lower section consists of narrow bricks from around 1600, while the upper part was rebuilt in the 19th century. The house has 19th and 20th-century casement windows and a mid-19th-century door at the lobby-entrance, which has four panels, with the upper pair being glazed and an eared architrave. Most of the framing is concealed. To the right of the farmhouse is an outhouse with a glazed pantiled roof from the 19th century; this structure was originally part of the house and likely served as a dairy. It features fully exposed framing, a completely blocked diamond mullioned window, and massive unchamfered floor joists. Thomas Denny established a tannery business here in 1711, which expanded significantly under Lankester Webb, who passed away in 1887, leading to the large complex that now stands to the south of the farmhouse.