Sycamore Farmhouse

Sycamore Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating back to the 15th century, which was enlarged in the mid-16th century. It is timber framed, roughcast-rendered, and has a pantiled roof. The building has two storeys and consists of three cells. There are three windows, which are late 19th-century 2-light casements, each with four panes. The entrance features a 20th-century semi-glazed door. An internal stack has its shaft rebuilt in the 1980s, and there is a later stack against the left gable end.

Inside, the core includes a former open hall with a heavily sooted coupled-rafter roof, which has not been fully examined. At the rear, there is a section of sooted wallplate and part of an open truss with a massive tie beam, while the rest of the medieval framing is concealed. The 16th-century hall ceiling has all components featuring a single roll moulding. The parlour end to the left has the main components of the frame exposed on the upper floor, with reverse-curved braces in the end wall. The parlour boasts a good ceiling with a single roll moulding on the bridging beam and joists, along with provisions for an original ladder stair at the rear. This ceiling is of earlier and better quality than the inserted one in the hall. Between the current stack and the end of the moulded parlour ceiling, there is a 2-meter wide section of ceiling with much poorer quality joists, likely indicating the position of a previous chimney, probably against the end wall of the medieval hall.