Common Farmhouse

Common Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, built in two phases, with an early 19th-century wing added to the north. The building is timber framed and roughcast-rendered, topped with a pantiled roof. The 19th-century work is in red brick, also with a pantiled roof. The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, featuring 19th-century casement windows and a plank door. There is an internal stack and a lean-to addition on the front gable end. The early 19th-century wing has two small-paned casement windows on the first floor, set under cambered arches, while the ground floor has 20th-century metal casements and a boarded door. The interior remains largely unmodernised, with many timbers concealed. The section to the east of the stack includes an open truss with a flat tie beam that supports substantial queen-posts, featuring one-way braces to the arcade plates. There are indications of tie beam braces that extended through the current floor level. This structure extends to the rear as a barn, which has been significantly altered and is not of special interest. The two bays at the front of the house, one of which contains the inserted stack, display reverse-curved braces in the side walls and straight tension braces in the gable end. The first-floor structure includes heavy joists and a bridging beam that is arched-braced to the wallposts, although one brace is missing. The roof features queen-post construction, and there is a newel stair beside the stack. The unique construction of this house indicates that it may have been a later conversion of service accommodation and part of the barn.