Fen Farmhouse

Fen Farmhouse is a house dating back to the 16th century, built in two distinct phases and originally with a three-cell plan incorporating a lobby entrance. The house is one storey high with attics. It is timber-framed and the exterior is rendered in roughcast panels. The roof is thatched, with a half-hipped section on the left and a fully hipped section on the right. A central chimney is built of red brick, with a rebuilt shaft dating to the 19th century, and there is an external chimney to the left, also dating to the 18th century. Later 19th-century eyebrow dormers are set into the roof. The windows are mostly 3-light casements, dating to the 18th or early 19th century, fitted with metal windows. A 20th-century gabled porch with a boarded and battened door sits at the entrance. The original core of the house, dating to the early 16th century and comprising two small cells, has undergone substantial alterations, including evidence of an inserted upper floor. Fragments of an original timber-framed chimney remain. A further bay was added to the left-hand end in the late 16th century; this work features tension-braced studwork and base-crucks supporting the half-hip roof. The roof internally is a coupled-rafter construction in two phases. A lean-to extension was added in the 18th or 19th century to the right, and a single-storey extension, tiled with pantiles, was built in the mid-20th century to the rear.