America Farmhouse

America Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse with a later addition dating to around 1800. It has a cross-passage entrance plan, initially with three cells, and is timber-framed and plastered. The roof is tiled, with a 17th-century axial chimney constructed of buff brick, with a 20th-century red brick upper section. Windows are 19th-century casements at the first floor, and 20th-century small-pane casements on the ground floor. A mid-19th century glazed panelled entrance door is set within a 20th-century gabled porch, tiled to match the roof. The timber framing is exposed and unmoulded. Around 1800, the original cross-passage was moved to the right, expanding the hall and incorporating a former service room. The house features unchamfered floor joists laid flat, and back-to-back lintelled open fireplaces within the hall and parlour. A reused timber lintel from a timber-framed chimney is present in the hall fireplace, alongside a binding beam with a jewelled chamfer stop, and other timbers which are reused from a 16th-century house. The roof structure is a clasped purlin roof.