Hines Farmhouse

Hines Farmhouse is a former farmhouse that was built in two stages: in the mid 16th century and around 1570. The building has two storeys and features a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof that includes a red brick axial chimney. Most of the windows are small-pane casements from around 1970, but some original diamond-mullioned windows from around 1570 are still exposed and glazed. There is a glazed entrance door from the 20th century at the gable end.

The hall and parlour cells, built around 1570, retain quite complete unmoulded framing and back-to-back open lintelled fireplaces. The studwork is widely spaced without visible bracing, and the roof features wind-braced clasped purlins with reduced principals. Until about 1970, the twin service doorways had heads with shallow ogee arches. The service cell dates from the early or mid 16th century and has arch-braced studwork and heavy unchamfered floor joists, which are now concealed. The roof of this cell has coupled rafters and shows evidence of both a half-hip and a secondary queen-post system. Although this cell was remodelled or possibly reassembled around 1600, it is certainly of earlier origin.