Sycamore Farmhouse

Sycamore Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the first half of the 17th century, built in two or more phases, with significant later alterations. The building features a main range with a parlour cross-wing on the left and a formerly detached service range on the right, set corner-to-corner at the rear. It is timber framed, with the facade roughcast-rendered and the remainder plastered. The roof is covered with interlocking concrete pantiles. The farmhouse has two storeys with attics in both the parlour and service wings.

The windows are standard mid-20th century single-paned casements. The entrance is through a late 19th century two-storey porch made of colourwashed brick with a flat parapet, featuring a six-panel raised and fielded door beneath a wedge lintel. Inside, much of the structure is concealed, but the ground floor ceiling in the main range has an unusual arrangement. A heavy cross-beam, approximately central, is ovolo-moulded on the left and has a plain chamfer on the right, with no evidence of a studded partition below. The room to the left contains an ovolo axial bridging beam, while the right-hand room has joists set flat with slightly moulded edges.

The parlour wing retains remnants of an original attic window with chamfered mullions, along with several 18th century doors featuring raised and fielded panels. The staircase to the upper floor has heavy square balusters, a steeply ramped handrail, and carved tread-ends, with an oak newel stair leading to the attic. The original roof over the cross-wing includes clasped and diminished butt purlins with arched windbraces, while the roof over the main range is of butt purlin form and was reconstructed in the 20th century. The roof over the service range has not been examined.