Fishpond Farmhouse

This is a former farmhouse, dating back to the 16th century, with possible earlier origins. The house was originally timber-framed and formerly rendered, but was encased around 1920 in red and white brick, now whitewashed. It has a clay pantile roof. The structure is two storeys high and comprises three main rooms. A plain red brick chimney stack rises from an internal chimney. Modern casement windows are present, with two-light windows on the upper floor and three-light windows on the ground floor. There is an enclosed, gabled brick porch with a modern door. A red brick and flint lean-to, one-and-a-half storeys high, extends along the entire rear wall.

The timber frame is visible internally, arranged over four bays, featuring good studding with long arched braces. To the left of the stack is a one-bay service area, formerly divided into two rooms, with remnants of two flat-headed doorways in the partition wall. A beam with embattled ornament is set into the gable wall at ceiling height. Adjacent to the service area is a one-bay room with a chamfered main beam and a simple timber lintel above the open fireplace. To the right of the stack is a two-bay parlour, also with a chamfered main beam, supported by jowled posts. This parlour has a fireplace with a rounded brick back and a plain timber lintel, along with a five-light mullioned window in the gable end; the mullions are decorated with roll and hollow mouldings. A similar window in the upper room, with damaged mullions, has three lights and two narrow half-lights. The chimney stack is entirely within the parlour, placing the main ceiling beam off-centre. The posts supporting this beam lack a tie-beam above and appear to be made of a different type of timber, suggesting that this truss may be a replacement for a former end truss, given the unusual layout that indicates extensive interior remodelling. The embattled beam, now in the service area, may have originally been a dais beam of an open hall, hinting at a possible medieval core.

Evidence of replacement studding is present on the upper rear wall, along with remnants of a large diamond-mullioned window. The roof has clasped side purlins without principals or windbraces, and shows no signs of smoke-blackening. The house is situated in an isolated location, away from the road, and immediately on the parish boundary.