Generations Farm House

Generations Farm House is a house dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with later alterations and extensions. A stack and floor were inserted in the late 16th century, and the house was extended in the 17th century. Further changes occurred in the 19th century, including a rebuilt stack and a new roof. The building has a timber frame that is plastered and scored to resemble ashlar. It features a steeply pitched roof covered with plain tiles, while the service additions have pantiles.

The main structure originally had three bays, with two open bays and a storeyed lower bay facing the road. It has been altered to include a stack in the cross passage and a hall lower bay, creating a two-cell lobby entry plan, along with two service bay additions on the left. The house is two storeys high with an attic, and there are one-storey and attic additions.

The main block has a central six-panelled door with reeded architrave and a cornice. The ground floor has 20th-century casements, while the first floor features architraved sashes with four panes on the left and eight panes on the right. The eaves are boxed, and there is a 19th-century central ridge stack. The right gable end has an attic three-light leaded casement with a hoodboard. The 17th-century kitchen and 19th-century dairy bays to the left include a central 19th-century ridge stack and a gable end two-light attic window. At the rear, there is a 19th-century brick lean-to attached to the main range, featuring glazing bar casements, a stack with a rebuilt cap, a 20th-century gabled dormer, an entrance into the earlier service bay, and a two-light box dormer.

Inside, the house has chamfered cross axial binding beams and stop-chamfered joists. The close studding has been altered, with arched braces in the walling. There is part of a four-light diamond mullioned hall window below the original wall plate, which has an edge halved scarf joint. A queen post truss with a cambered collar and no bracing, dating from the 16th-century reroofing, survives at the left end, featuring a shaped bracket to the plate. Attached to the service end are outbuildings made of flint and clay lump, all with pantiled roofs, some of which are open to the rear.