Sunnyside House

Sunnyside House is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, 17th century, and mid-19th century. It is timber-framed and rendered, with old plain tiled roofs. The building has two storeys, with some parts featuring attics, and has a complex shape, including a main range aligned north-south and extensions to the east and west. The gables are adorned with fluted bargeboards and spike finials, and there are several chimney stacks made of plain red brick.

Most of the windows date from the mid or late 19th century. The south gable end features a two-storey canted bay addition with a parapet and a tented roof, which includes three large-paned sash windows on the upper floor and central half-glazed French doors on the ground floor. On either side of the bay, there are tripartite large-paned sashes with narrow sidelights. In the southwest corner, there is a flat-roofed brick addition serving as an entrance porch, alongside an Edwardian fully glazed conservatory that runs along the entire front of the west wing.

The original house is the north-south range, which has a three-cell internal chimney plan. To the south of the stack, there is a two-bay room featuring boxed-in cross-beams and a timber fireplace lintel with double roll-moulding and tuck-pointed brickwork. To the north of the stack, there are three bays, with a former partition removed, showcasing a heavy main beam with a 3-inch chamfer and small solid supporting braces. The upper floor reveals main posts with long jowls, some exposed good studding, and one open truss with a cambered tie-beam and remnants of arched braces. The roof consists of six bays with one row of stepped butt purlins. The 17th-century addition to the east has a roof with cambered collars and clasped purlins. The long west wing is entirely mid-Victorian, incorporating an earlier one-and-a-half-storey former dairy in the northwest corner.