Dial Farmhouse

Dial Farmhouse is an early or mid-17th century farmhouse built with a 3-cell lobby-entrance plan. It is two storeys and has attics. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with a plaintiled roof. The chimney stack is of 17th-century construction at its base, but the upper shaft was rebuilt around 1980 and now includes a painted sundial. A 17th-century gabled dormer is present; whilst the casement was renewed in the 19th century, the original moulded head remains. The windows are late 19th-century 3-light casements. A gabled, 19th-century entrance porch with a panelled and glazed door sits at the front. A lower range was added to the right side of the house in the early 19th century. The original timber framing is complete and visible internally. The roof structure is a 2-tier butt-purlin design with wind-bracing. The farmhouse is situated on an island surrounded by an unaltered medieval moat.