The Long Farmhouse

The Long Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the mid-16th century, with a late 16th-century addition of an in-line parlour to the west. It is timber framed and roughcast rendered, topped with a plaintiled roof. The building has a three-cell form and stands two storeys high with attics. It features various 20th-century small-paned casement windows. There is an internal stack, with an oblong axial shaft that may be original, and a later internal stack at the junction of the hall and service end. The east gable end has a 20th-century boarded half-door.

Inside, the earlier phase consists of three bays, including the hall and service cells. The first-floor framing is intact with tension braces, which is unusual for this part of Suffolk. The hall ceiling has heavy, closely spaced plain joists, with a small section removed for a mid-20th-century stair. By the stack, there is a four-centre arched doorway, and the hall fireplace features re-used freestone in the jambs. The service end was formerly divided into two rooms axially, with plain joists; most of the service partition has been removed to accommodate a later stack. This section has a queen-post roof with notably cranked bracing and collar braces over the hall chamber. The two-bay parlour cell has close studding in the front wall, a cambered tie beam with cranked arched braces (one of which has been replaced), and a plastered ceiling. There is a newel stair by the stack, with the upper flight mostly rebuilt. The roof over the parlour cell features wind-braced clasped purlins.