Riding Farmhouse

Riding Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, featuring a front range with older fragments in a reconstructed rear wing. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with plaintiles on the roof. It stands two storeys high with attics and has a two-cell internal chimney plan, now with a lobby entrance. The internal chimney stack has three octagonal shafts that are attached at the heads, resting on a rectangular base with a recessed panel that no longer displays a date. The gables have plain bargeboards and spike finials.

On the upper floor, there are two three-light windows and one central two-light window, all of which are old casements with plain glass. The ground floor features three three-light casements with transoms, one of which is located in a single-storey enclosed and gabled 20th-century porch with a side entry. To the left of the chimney stack, there is an open fireplace with a curved back and an ovolo-moulded brick arch. The main beam has ovolo moulding and lamb's tongue stops with an unusual double groove. To the right of the stack, a timber lintel, taken from a demolished rear section, bears a spurious date of 1470. There are two fireplaces on the upper floor, and the first-floor ceiling joists are set on edge, with roof timbers plastered over.

The 1½-storey rear range has an externally set chimney stack on the side wall and includes a massive old beam, showing signs of extensive remodelling. This rear section likely incorporates the earliest part of the building, to which the front section was added. The current lobby entrance has been cut through the studding on the front wall and is clearly a later addition.