Fen Street Farm House

Fen Street Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the mid-16th century, with possible earlier origins, and has been altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame on a brick base, which is plastered, and has a steeply pitched pantiled roof, partly black glazed. The building has a five-bay, three-cell cross entry plan and stands two storeys high. The entrance is located in the cross entry position to the left of centre, consisting of a boarded door within a 20th-century gabled porch. To the left, at the service end, there is a 19th-century tiled brick oven outshut, while the right side has 20th-century casements alongside an earlier three-light glazing bar casement on the first floor. The eaves are boxed, and there is a large axial ridge stack to the right of centre with drip courses, along with a 19th-century kitchen stack inserted to the front left. The right end features pentice boards, and there is a lean-to dairy at the left end, with an attic two-light casement. At the rear, the cross entry is blocked, and there is a lobby entrance with brackets supporting a hood.

Inside, the farmhouse displays close studding, hall and parlour jowled storey posts, and stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams and joists. There are two chamfered service door heads and a newel stair located behind the stack. On the first floor, a splayed and tabled scarf joint is present in the rear wall plate, along with cranked arched braces in the walls and arched braces to the cambered tie beams. An inserted chamfered axial binding beam and early 18th-century panelling can be found in the passageway. The roof structure is a queen post design, featuring cranked braces from posts to plates and purlins, as well as reverse cranked braces from posts to collars, and it was originally hipped over the service end.