Dairy Farmhouse

Dairy Farmhouse is a former farmhouse that was converted into two cottages in the 19th century and is now a single house. It dates from the late 16th and 17th centuries, with a front added in the 19th century. The building is timber-framed, with the northern half rendered and the southern half faced in mid-19th century red brick. It has a roof covered with double Roman tiles and features an internal chimney stack with a plain shaft. The house is one-and-a-half storeys tall, but the walls were heightened later, making it appear as two storeys from the outside, although no internal alterations have been made, and there are two layers of roof.

The front of the rendered section has a slight overhang that indicates the line of the older wall-plate. This end has small-paned 20th-century windows and a reproduction door. The southern end features two small-paned sash windows with arched heads in brick surrounds, along with a doorway between them and 19th-century three-light small-paned casements on the upper storey.

Inside, the layout consists of four rooms arranged in a row, divided by the chimney stack. The framing to the north of the stack is of good quality, with arched braces supporting the tie-beams of the trusses and halved arched braces against the studs at the corners. The original late 16th-century house likely had a two-cell end chimney plan and a single large upper room. In the southern 17th-century end, one ground floor ceiling has very heavy plain joists and main beams with a three-inch chamfer, which does not match the rest of the building and appears to have come from elsewhere. The remaining frame is of poorer quality. The house features clasped purlin roofs throughout, with the northern half being of better quality. The property is currently under restoration, and several reused timbers have been introduced.