Drivers Farmhouse

House, originally a farmhouse, later divided into two dwellings. The main part of the house dates to the mid-16th century, with possible earlier elements, and was altered in the early 17th century and the 19th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, with pantiled roofs. The original design was probably a small, two-bay open hall with a one-story lower end, to which a parlour was added. A floor and stack were subsequently inserted to create a three-cell cross-passage plan, with a two-bay jettied upper crosswing to the left. The house is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are cross-passage and lobby entrances with boarded doors set in simple surrounds. There is a common hoodboard over the hall, and service bays 2 and 3 have two and three-light glazing bar casements. A three-light glazing bar casement sits on a slightly projecting brick base to the parlour. The first floor has a three-light part-opening metal frame casement above the hall. The jettied end features curved brackets to the parlour chamber, along with 19th-century beading, a three-light glazing bar casement, curved brackets to exposed plates, a pentice board, exposed side purlins, and bargeboards. A 17th-century brick axial ridge stack is located at the left end of the main range. A slightly lower ridge is present on the crosswing. A 19th-century external stack is at the right end, along with an oven outshut, a loft door, and a hatch. A pentice board and exposed plates and side purlins are also present. The left return shows an exposed post and mid-rail, and a jetty to the rear of the parlour with butt-ended joists on four large curved brackets. Inside, the timber frame is concealed. The hall has stop-chamfered axial binding beams, joists, and a mid-rail, along with a bolection moulded fireplace surround. The parlour has a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam on storey posts, double roll and hollow moulded bar stopped joists. The loft over the service bay has tension braces in altered walling and a removed tie beam; the first floor and roof were not inspected beyond this.