Thompsons Farmhouse

Thompsons Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from around 1570. It is a single storey building with attics and features a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with late 20th century cable-pattern pargetting in panels. It has a hipped thatched roof and an original axial chimney made of buff/pink brick. The windows are small pane casements from the 19th and 20th centuries, and there is a glazed 20th century entrance door located in an open porch. This house is considered unusual for its sub-medieval style.

Inside, there are twin service rooms that have been united, and a cross-passage with a massive brick chimney backing onto it. The single-bay hall includes a recess that appears to have been used for a bench at the upper partition. Above the hall and parlour, the loft is only divided by an open truss. The roof features a late type of crownpost with square posts that are not braced. There is also evidence of shuttered diamond-mullioned windows. The wide lintelled fireplace in the hall has an integral smoke-curing chamber at the first storey level, complete with stout built-in hanging poles. Access to the chamber was only possible from within the chimney.