Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant is a farmhouse dating from the 15th century. It features a timber frame with modern textured render, while the south gable is partly covered in 19th-century red brick. The north gable end was completely rebuilt in brick in 1975. The building has a pantiled roof and stands two storeys high, with 19th-century casement windows and boarded, four-panelled doors, both sheltered by a flat-roofed open porch. There is a late 19th-century canted bay window on the ground floor of the south gable end. Inside, there is an internal stack with a mid-20th-century chimney shaft. Originally an open hall house with one-bay storied ends, it has blocked paired service doorways with four-centre arched heads. At the upper end of the hall, there is a moulded and embattled dais beam, and a similarly decorated beam at the lower end against the cross-passage. A heavy two-centre arched doorway leads to the parlour, which may be of earlier origin. The parlour features plain joists, and there is an inserted floor in the hall. The upper floor displays exposed studding with tension braces in the surviving gable end wall. The open truss has a cambered tie beam, although the braces are missing. Above the hall, there is a queen-post roof with a ridge piece, and all components are smoke-blackened. The roof may have originally been hipped over the end bays.