Old Farm

This is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating to the late 17th or early 18th century. It incorporates timbers from the 16th century or earlier, believed to have come from buildings on the Whiligh estate. The ground floor was refronted with brick and the windows replaced in the early 19th and 20th centuries.

The house is timber-framed, with a brick ground floor in English bond and a tile-hung first floor. It has a tiled roof, hipped at one end and half-hipped to the other two ends. The plan is L-shaped, with two irregular windows visible on the front elevation. The ground-floor windows are 19th-century cast iron casements.

Inside, substantial timber framing remains exposed. The drawing room features a wooden bressumer showing signs of a former cooking fitting, a reused moulded oak spine beam and early 18th-century wall framing. The kitchen has a reused girder acting as a bressumer. Upstairs, corner posts have a mid-18th-century curved profile. A bedroom at the southwestern end has a late 17th or early 18th-century small panel wall frame, but also a reused 16th-century central girder with half-formed stave holes. The roof over the southern range has pegged rafters without a ridge piece and purlins. This is a largely complete late 17th or early 18th-century house, containing several interesting reused timbers of earlier dates.