Home Farmhouse

Home Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating from the mid 16th century, featuring significant alterations and additions from the 18th and 19th centuries, including a new roof and a rear wing. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a roof made of glazed black pantiles. It has two storeys and an attic, with various casement windows, primarily from the 19th and 20th centuries, and a half-glazed four-panel door. A gabled two-storey porch, likely from around 1600, is present, along with a mid 20th-century flat-roofed extension to the right. There are internal and gable stacks with 19th-century white brick shafts. At the rear, there is an early 19th-century doorway featuring a six-panel door, frieze, and bracketed cornice. Inside, the parlour boasts a fine moulded beam and joist ceiling with run-out stops and soffits with sunk spandrels. The hall contains an early 19th-century fireplace flanked by contemporary cupboards with three-centre arches. In 1736, Mary Warner of Boyton bequeathed various estates for charitable purposes, including this farm, which provided £10 a year for a schoolmaster to teach 12 poor children, starting in 1757 after her death. To the west and south of the farmhouse, remnants of a medieval moat and fish ponds can be found.