Jockeys Farmhouse

Jockeys Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, likely built around 1576. It has two storeys and features a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. The structure is timber framed and plastered, topped with a plaintiled roof that has a red brick axial chimney. An early 19th-century wooden eaves cornice is dentilled. The windows are mainly mid-20th-century casements, while the entrance door is a 19th-century six-panelled design. Inside, the original unmoulded framing is fully exposed, with floor joists that have narrow chamfers and run-out stops. The studwork includes arch stud-bracing and diamond-mullioned windows, some of which have been restored and glazed. There are three open fireplaces, each featuring a plain oak lintel, and an original newel stair around the stack. The roof has clasped purlins with cranked wind-braces. A clap-boarded partition on the first storey may be part of the repositioned cross-passage screen. At the rear, there is a two-storey extension made of red brick with a hipped plaintiled roof, which is scratch-dated to 1821. A document from 1643 references a building lease for this site dating back to 1576, which may indicate the house's construction date.