Abbey Farmhouse

Abbey Farmhouse is a house dating back to the mid-16th century, with later alterations around 1720, incorporating elements of the Priory of St Peter, which was dissolved in 1537. The construction is a mix of brick, timber frame, and re-used ashlar, with tiled roofs. The red brick is laid in a Flemish bond pattern.

The exterior is three storeys high and has a six-window front. It has a plinth course. Two 19th-century doorways are symmetrically placed in the second and fifth bays; the western door has a gabled late-19th-century porch, and the eastern door has a 20th-century pentice roof supported by posts. Single-light casement windows, also dating to the 19th century, are positioned above the entrances on each floor. The remaining windows are 3-light 19th-century metal casements, all set under segmental arches. Platbands run along the first and second floors. The roof is hipped with two panelled ridge stacks. The west return is of banded flint and brick, with ashlar quoins at the north-west corner, featuring 3-light and 2-light 19th-century casements on each floor. The east return features re-used ashlar blocks and has one 3-light 19th-century casement on each floor. The rear of the property includes two hipped and one gabled wings; the hipped wing has one storey and a dormer attic, while the gabled wing is a single storey. The east wing displays re-used ashlar, 3-light 20th-century casements on the ground floor, and two flat-topped 20th-century dormers.

Inside the front range, there are chamfered bridging beams on both floors, and a rebuilt fireplace in the east ground-floor room. A chamfered 4-centred doorway on the first floor connects to the rear wing, belonging to a range that was replaced by the early 18th-century front block. The rear east wing contains two polygonal principal posts from the 15th century, of substantial size. The southern post displays bowtell and casement mouldings on the upper floor. The frame of the rear wing has moderate timbering, with jowled principal posts and dragon struts at the corners. Several 16th-century plank doors are fitted with strap hinges. The roof of the front range consists of rafters and two tiers of butt purlins.