Valley Farmhouse

Valley Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 1894. Originally a three-cell open hall house, it is a single storey with attics. The house has a timber frame covered in plaster and a pantiled roof, formerly thatched.

Three brick chimneys, built in the 19th century, are located along the central axis and externally. Two dormers with small-paned sash windows were added in the 19th century, as were small-paned casement windows. The entrance is via a mid-19th century six-panelled door, the upper panels glazed, set within a late-19th century gabled porch with cast iron columns. The original open hall has largely lost its truss, but fragments remain, including a near-complete cross-quadrate crownpost with four-way plank bracing. The roof of the hall retains traces of smoke. The service room has doorways with four-centred arches. The timber framing uses widely-spaced tension braces, and there is evidence that the house once had diamond-mullioned windows. The service cell has heavy exposed floor joists. This part of the house was altered in the mid-16th century with the insertion of two massive base-crucks to support a half-hip roof. Further alterations in the early 17th century included the insertion of an upper floor into the hall and the addition of a three-bay dairy wing to the rear, incorporating some reused 16th-century moulded binding beams. A range built in 1894 projects to the right, constructed of gault brick with a slated roof and two storeys.