The Homestead

The Homestead is a mid-17th century house featuring one-and-a-half storeys and a three-cell lobby-entrance layout. The building is timber-framed, with exposed timbers on the front and red brick with blue headers up to tie-beam level on the south gable. It has a plaintiled roof, fluted and pierced bargeboards with drop finials on the gables, and a single-storey lean-to addition along the entire back wall. An internal chimney stack has a tall plain red brick shaft. The house includes 20th-century three-light casement windows and three gabled dormers with matching bargeboards and finials. The entrance door is sheltered by a small open 20th-century porch. Inside, the frame features a high middle rail and small arched braces at the corners, with some plain timbering exposed. The internal chimney stack includes two back-to-back hearths, with a timber lintel on the north side and a smaller brick arched opening on the south.