Kennels Farmhouse

Kennels Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from around 1700, with a later 18th-century extension and mid-20th-century alterations. The building features a 4-cell main range that is one storey high with attics, and a two-storey wing on the front right. It is timber-framed and plastered, with the front elevation encased in red brick from the late 18th century, which is now painted. The roof is thatched and has an axial 18th-century chimney made of red brick, along with a 20th-century eyebrow casement dormer. The windows are late 18th-century wooden mullioned and transomed designs with small panes and segmental heads. The entrance door, also from the late 18th century, has six panels in the re-entrant angle of the front wing, with fielded lower panels and glazed upper panels. The wing has a hipped roof covered with plain tiles and features 20th-century small-pane sash windows. Inside, typical 18th-century timber-framing is exposed, with reused large floor joists laid flat in some rooms and slender on-edge joists in others. The later front wing incorporates many 16th-century components, including close-studding and flat-laid floor joists, indicating that a 16th-century building was completely reconstructed on the same site.