Shrubbery Farmhouse

Shrubbery Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with parts rebuilt in the 19th century and altered in the 20th century. It has a timber frame with some later brickwork, which is plastered and whitewashed. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with plain tiles, while the rear has machine tiles. The building is L-shaped in plan, featuring a three-cell cross passage layout and a two-bay kitchen/dairy wing at the rear left. It has two storeys and an attic.

On the ground floor, the entrance is located in the cross passage towards the left, featuring a 20th-century gabled porch. To the right, there is a four-light transomed part-opening metal frame casement with upper leaded lights and a hoodboard, along with similar three-light casements to the left and dual two-light casements leading to the parlour at the far right. The first floor has three and four-light part-opening metal frame casements. The exterior displays some braided pargetting in panels, an offset plinth, and boxed eaves. Between the hall and parlour, there is an axial ridge stack with a rebuilt cap. The outer return of the lower service wing to the left has an early external kitchen stack within a later pantiled lean-to, while the inner return features some panelled pargetting. A 20th-century garage lean-to is located at the right end.

Inside, the farmhouse has five early bays with a central stack, although the service bays have been largely rebuilt. The hall features close studding, an ovolo moulded axial binding beam, and end girts, while the parlour has an ovolo moulded axial binding beam and one wall of original panelling. The overmantel includes three arched panels with intertwined scrolls, fluted Ionic pilasters, oak leaf spandrels, and dentillations. There is an ovolo moulded newel to the original stair behind the stack, along with chamfered arched braces to chamfered tie beams in open trusses. The hall chamber has a stop-chamfered axial binding beam and joists, and the roof features reused collars and halved principals clasping purlins, along with arched windbraces.