Westleygreen Farmhouse

Westleygreen Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, with alterations made at various times. It has two storeys and one storey with attics, constructed from timber framing and plaster. The central parlour block features a long-wall jettied upper floor with partially-exposed joist ends and is topped with plaintiled roofs. A large axial chimney has a rebuilt shaft made of 18th-century red brick. The windows are 19th-century small-pane casements, and there is a 19th-century boarded entrance door with a small open 20th-century porch. Inside the parlour block, there are good unmoulded first-floor joists and close-studwork. The crown-post roof projects from the left-hand gable, indicating that the building may have originally extended to the left, where there is a lower cell dating from the 17th or 18th century. The parlour contains a large blocked open fireplace and a 16th-century arched doorway leading to the lower range on the right, which features a 16th-century clasped purlin roof, with all rafters being reused from a smoke-blackened medieval open hall. A small 16th-century wing at the rear completes the complex layout, which reflects some intriguing changes in the house's early history.