Menes Farmhouse

Menes Farmhouse is a former farmhouse with a core dating from the 15th or early 16th century, featuring alterations from the mid-16th century. It has a three-cell plan and is one storey high with attics. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that has a central axial chimney made of red brick. The mid-20th century includes casement windows with small panes and two flat-roofed bay windows. A thatched gabled porch, added in the 20th century, leads to the lobby entrance and features a boarded and battened door.

Inside, there is a fragmentary open hall of two bays at the center, showcasing a smoke-blackened coupled rafter roof with signs of a hip to the left, indicating that the house was originally of two-cell form. The original diamond-mullioned hall window has been altered, and the open truss is mostly missing, leaving only posts with arch brace mortices. A cell was added to the left in the mid-16th century, characterized by arch windbraced close studding and heavy lodged unchamfered floor joists. Another cell was added to the right later in the 16th century, replacing the original service cell, and this phase also included diamond-mullioned windows. The floor joists in this section are slightly less massive, and an upper floor was inserted in the hall.