Kerrys Farmhouse

Kerry's Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with some parts around 1600. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell plan where the parlour cell is in a cross-wing form. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a Roman pantiled roof that was once thatched. There are two 19th-century red brick chimneys, one axial and the other at the left-hand gable. The windows include 19th and 20th-century casements, and on the side wall of the cross-wing, there is a chamber window from around 1600 that is oriel in form, with ovolo-moulded mullions, a transom, and a cill. The entrance door is a 19th-century four-panelled design, and there is a 20th-century wooden conservatory or porch to the left. The parlour block, added around 1600, features high-quality close-studding and a butt-purlin roof. The main range consists of five very narrow bays, indicating significant alterations, such as the removal of an early chimney. The house has strong cambered arch-braced tie-beams of early to mid-16th century style, while the wallplates exhibit splayed edge-halved and bridled scarfs typical of late 14th to early 15th century construction, possibly reused during the 16th-century rebuilding. The farmhouse is located near the edge of a partial medieval moat.