Bennetts Farmhouse

Bennetts Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations from the 17th and 19th centuries. It has one storey and attics, built on a three-cell plan. The front wall is encased in mid-19th century red brick, while the other walls are plastered. The roof is thatched and has a half-hipped end on the left side. There is a central axial chimney made of red brick from the 17th century. The house features a 19th-century gabled casement dormer, small-pane casement windows, and a boarded entrance door. Inside, there is a central open hall where the open truss has been removed, but much of the smoke-blackened coupled-rafter roof remains, along with evidence of a former crownpost system. The right-hand cell also has a smoke-blackened roof, indicating that the partition wall was not full height. The hall has an inserted floor, and there is a chimney in the former cross-passage, both of which are 17th-century alterations. The framing of the house is largely concealed.