Chickering Corner Farmhouse

Chickering Corner Farmhouse is part of a former farmhouse, now a single dwelling, dating to the 15th century. It was extended northwards by one bay in the late 16th century. The surviving cross-wing is believed to be from a substantial medieval house, potentially the manor house of Chickering Hall. The building is timber-framed, originally plastered, but now mainly cement-rendered, with a pantiled roof. It is two storeys and has an attic. The east gable end is jettied, with remnants of buttress-shafts. Most windows are mullioned, inserted in the mid-20th century. There are two 19th-century casement windows in the east gable end, and a mid-20th century boarded door. The farmhouse incorporates one bay of an adjacent range to the north, which was rebuilt in the 16th century (see Haywards Farm Cottage). This section has a 19th-century doorway with a half-glazed four-panel door and bracketed hood. An internal stack with a plain shaft is present. The main ground floor room features heavy close studding and closely-spaced plain joists, with buttress-shafted wallposts. One wallpost has a carved figure of a seated woodwose, and the opposite has two huntsmen, one with a club, and a dog between them. Both carvings are on moulded stools with moulded caps above. The middle rail and bridging beam retain substantial remains of a repeated two-word inscription in Lombardic script, dating to the 15th century. Good first-floor studding is visible, with rooms accessed via four-centre arched doorways. One room has a 16th-century window with cavetto and roll-moulded mullions. In the east gable end are two later square panels, each infilled with curved braces to produce a geometric design. Evidence indicates an original doorway leading to the adjacent range. The 15th-century wallplates are constructed with edge-halved and bridled scarf joints, featuring undersquinted butts approximately 0.3 meters long. A stack was inserted around 1600, containing two arched brick fireplaces; one on the first floor is stuccoed, and the other has remains of lining on the brick joints. A side purlin roof of 17th–18th-century origin is present. A newel staircase is incorporated. Within the adjoining range's section are remnants of a plank and muntin screen and some reused 17th-century panelling. Traces of a medieval moat are visible surrounding the building.