Kisumu

Kisumu is a former farmhouse dating from the 16th century, featuring a 17th-century addition on the right that creates a single long range. The building is timber framed and rendered, topped with a pantiled roof. It has two storeys and an attic, with five mid-20th century casement windows that include horizontal glazing bars. A mid-20th century plank door is set beneath a gabled timber porch, which is located where a cross-entry would have been. There are two internal stacks, one from each construction phase, with substantial axial shafts; the lower parts are made of 16th and 17th-century brick.

Inside, the 16th-century section consists of five bays with much exposed framing, particularly in the parlour cell, which features close studding. There is evidence of various windows, including a diamond-mullioned attic window. Two 4-centre arched doorways lead from the stack into the hall and parlour. The hall has a ceiling with chamfered joists and an altered plank and muntin partition that used to separate the cross-passage. A massive fireplace lintel has been altered, while the parlour joists are plastered over. The parlour contains a well-preserved fireplace with undamaged brickwork and remnants of mortar joint lining. The upper fireplaces are later 17th-century additions. The fireplace in the parlour chamber has a depressed stuccoed arch and a simple monochrome painted design above, featuring a rectangle with a serrated border enclosing a square panel with similar motifs. The 16th-century roof has one row of wind-braced clasped purlins. The early 17th-century addition is a single long bay, although this part of the house has been more altered. A ground floor room at the junction with the 16th-century section features a chamfered floor beam with nicked ogee stops.