Primrose Farmhouse

Primrose Farmhouse is a 16th-century farmhouse located on Monk Soham School Road. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a thatched roof, designed in a three-cell form, and has two storeys plus an attic. The upper floor includes four late 19th-century two-light casement windows, while the ground floor has two three-light mullion and transom casements with 20th-century square-leaded glass, along with a slatted opening to the left. There is a plank door and a 20th-century gabled timber trellis porch, which is also thatched. An internal stack retains its original oblong shaft.

At the rear of the service end, there is a one-storey addition made of colourwashed brick with a pantiled roof, featuring a stack dated 1782. Inside, the farmhouse displays some good studding and evidence of diamond-mullioned windows on both floors. The gable end wall in the service chamber has tension braces. The hall contains an axial bridging beam with a large chamfer and closely spaced plain joists. Part of this room has been incorporated into the service end, and the original cross-partition on the ground floor has been lost. The parlour has plain ceiling joists, while above the hall chamber, there is a slightly cambered tie beam with short arched braces to the wallposts. The later attic floor in the parlour cell features chamfered joists, and there is an oak newel stair extending to the first floor only. The roof has not been examined.