Thicks Farmhouse

Thicks Farmhouse is a timber-frame farmhouse, likely dating to the 17th century or earlier, with extensions added later in the 17th and 19th centuries. It has a thatched roof with gabled ends and brick axial and gable end stacks.

The farmhouse has a long, four-room plan in its main range, featuring a lobby entrance between the two left rooms. The two central rooms contain a straight staircase and are heated by axial stacks, while the left (south) end room may have originally been unheated. The room at the higher right (north) end likely represents a 17th-century addition, and the one-room plan kitchen wing with a prominent gable end stack on the front right is also a later 17th-century addition. An outshut on the rear right was probably built in the 19th century.

The main range is a one-storey and attic long, asymmetrical building. It has a 20th-century glazed and panelled door to the left of centre, and two 20th-century two and three-light casement windows to the right. Dormers break the eaves above. A two-storey wing projects to the right, featuring a large stack on the gable end and two and three-light casement windows and a plank door on its outer (north) side. The rear (west) elevation has various 20th-century casement windows, and a slate roofed outshut sits on the left. Large three-light casements are set into the south gable end.

Inside, the room to the left of centre has a mutilated chamfered axial beam and a fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel featuring bar stops. The room to the right of centre has a chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops and a large brick fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel that has cyma and diamond stops. The right (north) room and kitchen wing have chamfered axial beams; the partly blocked kitchen fireplace has a chamfered timber lintel. The chamber above the right (north) end has exposed joists and a chamfered axial beam supported on a jowled post against the stack. The roof over the main range was replaced around the 18th century, and features common rafters, lapped collars, and clasped purlins. The later 17th-century roof over the kitchen wing has dovetail lapped collars to every third common rafter and clasped side purlins. Neither roof has a ridgeplace.