Starhouse Farmhouse

Starhouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered, and has steeply pitched roofs covered with plain tiles. The building has a two-cell lobby entry block that is two storeys high with an attic, and a three-bay, one-storey service wing at the rear, forming a T shape in plan.

The central entrance is located in a projecting full-height gabled porch, which has a half-glazed door. On the first floor, there is a two-light glazing bar casement window. The flanking bays have three-light glazing bar casements on the ground floor and two-light casements on the first floor, with a brick casing to the left on the ground floor and sprocket eaves. The central axial ridge stack has been rebuilt and is broader at the base. The left gable end features two-light casements, while the right gable end has three-light casements and an early attic window with a lattice leaded light.

The service wing has a catslide roof over a lean-to outshut at the front, which includes an entrance and mixed 20th-century casements. There is a cross axial stack located to the left side of the ridge towards the rear, situated between the kitchen and dairy. The rear gable end displays exposed plates and purlins, along with a pantiled lean-to outshut.

Inside, the hall at the front right has close studding, ogee stop-chamfered mid-rails, and an axial binding beam. The parlour has been largely rebuilt, while the service wing contains a small vaulted passage with 19th-century architraved key-blocked doors and altered close studding in the kitchen. On the first floor, there is close studding and three-light ovolo mullioned window openings, with jowled posts facing away from the stack in the central bay and stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams. The attic features cruck-like spandrel pieces that are pegged onto the principal rafters and posts, replacing tie beams, along with lower butt purlins and collars to the upper clasped purlins. The service wing has a single clasped purlin roof with halved principals, cambered collars, and arched windbraces.