Malthouse Farmhouse

Malthouse Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from around 1550 to 1570. It has a three-cell plan with both lobby and cross-passage entrances and stands two storeys high with attics. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a plaintiled roof that features a central chimney made of red brick from the 16th or 17th century. Most of the windows are mid-20th century casements, but there are some early 17th-century ovolo-moulded mullioned windows. The entrance door, which dates from the late 18th or early 19th century, has six panels with the lower panels fielded and the upper pair glazed.

Inside, the hall showcases impressive roll-moulded ceiling joists and double-ogee moulded beams, along with a lintelled open fireplace and part of the plank-and-muntin cross-passage screen. The parlour has a similar ceiling, but only the moulded bridging beam is visible. There is a full-height newel staircase and arch windbraced close studding. One chamber features full early 17th-century wainscotting and matching moulded plaster cornices. The service cell was remodelled and extended by one bay to the right in the 18th century, and the butt purlin roof and attic floor structure were altered in the 17th century.