Charity Farmhouse

Charity Farmhouse is a 15th-century farmhouse located on Thorndon Thwaite Road. It is timber framed and largely plastered, with a thatched roof. The building originally comprised three cells, including a former open hall, and is approximately one-and-a-half storeys in height. It features a variety of casement windows, one old plank door, and a mid-20th century door on the extreme right. A small dormer window is present. The house has an internal stack with a small shaft made of common brick. The interior retains some original features, although much of the structure is concealed by later modifications. At the upper end of the hall, a two-centred arched doorway leads into the parlour. The ground-floor service partition has been removed, and a solid-tread stair is located at the service end. A blocked diamond-mullioned window is visible in the front wall of the service chamber. The intact open truss over the hall has arch-braced cambered tie beam and a tall octagonal crown-post with a moulded cap and base, along with four-way bracing. The sooted medieval rafters are largely intact.