Black Horse Farmhouse

Black Horse Farmhouse is a late 16th-century house, which was later used as a public house. It has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The ground floor is now red brick, with rendered and weatherboarded upper parts, and a thatched roof. Originally, it had a three-cell plan, and the original entrance position is unclear. The house is two storeys and has an attic. There is a lobby entrance to the left of centre, with a half-glazed door and a cornice. Windows are 1-, 2- and 3-light casements from the 20th century, with a string course marking the rendered first floor. An axial ridge stack with a rebuilt cap sits between the hall and parlour on the left of the centre. The right end is weatherboarded over the ground floor, with an external 19th-century service stack with offsets towards the rear. The left end is all weatherboarded, and the rear first floor is also weatherboarded. Inside, there are stop-chamfered axial binding beams, joists, mid-rails, and fireplace bressumers, along with leaf and bar stops on the binding beams. The frame has been altered, and a four-centred arched door head has been reset between the hall and service bays. On the first floor, arched braces are visible on the cambered tie beams, although many have been removed; there are traces of diamond mullioned window openings. The parlour chamber has a roll and cavetto moulded raised cross axial binding beam with run-out stop chamfered joists. The roof is a butt purlin roof with cambered collars that also clasp the purlins, and arched windbraces.