Maypole Farmhouse

Maypole Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed farmhouse dating from around 1530, with alterations made around 1570 and later. The building is two storeys high and has a T-plan layout, where the stem of the T is the original structure and the cross-bar, which contains the kitchen and parlour, was added later. It is timber-framed and plastered, featuring an oversailing gable tie-beam with vinescroll carving on the north gable. The south gable also oversails, but its tie-beam is concealed. The south side has large panels with textured plaster in the 17th and 18th century style, although these are likely restored. High in the gable, there is a plaster date of 1671. The ground storey walling is partially underbuilt with red brick from the 19th or 20th century, which is painted.

Next to the road stands a late 16th-century gable made of red brick, adorned with a diaperwork pattern in burnt headers, restored crowstepped gables, and moulded kneelers. Attached to the farmhouse is an internal end chimney featuring fine twin circular shafts on octagonal bases, with carved bricks—one showcasing a fluted spiral and the other with ribbed zigzags. The north wall of the east range has a long-wall jetty that is now enclosed by a 19th-century pantiled outshut; the joist-ends are exposed on brackets with shafts and well-carved capitals. The upper walling, which is enclosed within the roof space, contains a range of blocked but likely complete mullioned windows with moulded cills.

The roofs are covered with concrete plaintiles, and there is an axial chimney made of late 16th or early 17th-century red brick, featuring a square plinth with a sunk plastered panel and four attached octagonal shafts on moulded bases. The south side has mid-20th-century casements, while the south gable includes an 18th-century or early 19th-century lunette window with small panes, along with some 18th and 19th-century casements in other walls. A 19th-century lean-to entrance porch is made of brick and has a 20th-century half-glazed panelled door. The main first-floor members from both construction phases have roll-and-cavetto mouldings, and the main chamber of the east wing has a similarly moulded ceiling. There are also blocked late 16th-century windows with roll-moulded mullions, and the building features wind-braced clasped-purlin roofs. Much of the 16th-century work remains concealed internally.