The Paddocks

The Paddocks is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century and is an exceptionally well-preserved example of its type. There is an extension on the north side from the 17th century, which was altered around 1920. The house has a square plan with three windows on each side and a nearly symmetrical layout, featuring a room on either side of the staircase hall on the west. The walls are made of plastered brick, and there are coped gable ends on the west and east elevations. The building has first and second floor bands and stands two storeys high with attics. The roof is an H-plan covered with machine tiles and has two cemented cross-plan chimney stacks positioned at the left and right center.

On the west elevation, there are original cross bar casements on the first floor, and the entrance features a wide plank door set in a 4-centre arched chamfered stone surround. The east elevation door has shallow moulded stiles and muntins that create square panels, with a stone surround that includes moulded imposts, an arch, and a cornice. There are replacement two and four light mullioned windows.

Inside, the farmhouse boasts oak panelling throughout. The fireplaces in all ground floor rooms have moulded 4-centre stone arches, with those in the east rooms featuring two-arch oak overmantels. A large renewed Jacobean style open string staircase with tall figured newel posts adds to the interior's character. The north extension has a five-window design with an imitation half-timber upper floor and a 17th-century red brick ground floor, along with Tudor style chimney shafts on an 18th-century base. There is also a 20th-century extension beyond this.