Caters Farm

Caters Farm is a house dating from the early 17th century. It features a plastered and colourwashed timber frame with a thatched roof, although the rear wing has a pantiled roof. The house has an unusual four-unit cross-passage plan and includes a 20th-century wing at the rear. It is a single-storey building with an attic and has a six-window range, comprising three three-light casements and three windows with restored ovolo-moulded wooden mullions. The central entrance is a plank door set in an ovolo-moulded surround. There are two three-light gabled dormers with plain tile roofs. The left end of the house has two single-light windows with a two-light casement above, while the right end features a plank door with two two-light casements above. At the rear, there is an inserted five-light wooden mullion casement just below the eaves, along with various other casements and doors on the wing.

Inside, the close-studded framing is fully visible, with chamfered bridging beams and wide joists. There are two massive stacks with open fireplaces on the ground floor and one on the upper floor. The unusual plan includes a service area to the right, a hall with an open fireplace, a middle room between the two stacks (which formerly contained the cross-passage and a nailed partition), and a parlour with an open fireplace. The old plank front door and the door to the former service unit remain intact. The timbers show traces of 17th-century grey paint. The open fireplace on the first floor is located in the room above the middle room. The roof is ceiled at collar level and features clasped purlins with curved windbraces. This house has seen little alteration and retains a very unusual plan for its period.