Jacob'S Farmhouse

House. The core contains remains of a mid-14th century timber-framed open hall, with late 16th or early 17th century floor joists and chimney breasts. The building was extended and refaced in the mid-18th century with early 19th century extensions to form a U-shape at the back. There has been some 19th and 20th century refenestration and a small 20th century extension to the rear. The exterior is mainly tile hung with part brick, featuring a tiled roof and brick chimney stacks.

The front range is tile hung with a half-hipped roof to the right-hand side. The building is two storeys and attics with five windows and three triple gabled dormers with a moulded wooden eaves cornice. The fenestration is irregular and comprises mainly 20th century mullioned and transomed windows. The ground floor has to the extreme left a 16-pane sash and to the right of this a 12-paned sash. The central ground floor window is a mid-19th century tripartite window with verticals only. Off-centre is a 20th century door.

The left side gable is tile hung with two 20th century mullioned and transomed windows to the first floor. The ground floor has a casement with leaded lights and pintle hinges. To the left is a two-bay addition with one gabled tile hung dormer and two 20th century mullioned and transomed casements. An early 19th century lean-to addition is built in stretcher bond with a 20th century brick extension in Sussex bond to the extreme left.

The right side gable of the front range is tile hung with a base partly of sandstone and a half-hipped gable. There is a casement to the attic and one circular window to the ground floor. A three-light 20th century casement and wooden framed leased window are to the basement.

To the right-hand side is a smaller half-hipped gable of one bay in English garden wall bond to the ground floor and stretcher bond to the first floor, with a modillion eaves cornice and one cambered sash above. Adjoining this is a three-bay addition in Sussex bond with three 20th century casements with cambered head linings, a plank door with cambered head lining and a cemented plinth.

The interior of the courtyard is of early 19th century Sussex bond brickwork with brick modillion cornice. The ground floor has two early 19th century casements to the left with leaded lights. A ground floor room features a dais beam from the original open hall with brattishing, roll moulding and run-out stops, which carbon dating has assigned a median date of circa 1360. One part has been cut through to take a grandfather clock. This room also has a late 16th or early 17th century inserted ceiling with an axial beam featuring a 2½-inch-wide chamber and timber tongue steps and straight-cut joists. A wide wooden bressumer over the chimney breast has been reduced in the 18th century to form a small brick chimney.

The ground floor room to the end right has thick separate ceiling beams and a large wooden bressumer to the fireplace. Above the ground floor, the house appears largely altered in the 18th century with jowled posts with cut profile, some stick balusters to the first floor, and a through pulin roof with collars and plank doors to the attic.