Dudsland Farmhouse

House. Dating to the late 15th or early 16th century, the farmhouse has undergone significant alterations and additions in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The structure is timber framed with wattle and daub infill, largely tile-hung, with painted brick at ground floor level, and some weatherboard to the left return. The rear outshut, likely of the 18th century, was altered in the 19th and 20th centuries; it is mainly of painted pink brick with stone quoins and some rubblestone at the north end. The roof is tiled with a large brick stack to the left side and another to the rear right.

The house has two storeys, with two plus two framed bays. The right-hand section includes an attic and a partial, probably 18th-century, cellar. The two left bays, treated as one unit, slightly project and feature a hipped roof, with a four-light, small-pane window on each floor; the external chimney has brick infill at the front with a small window. The right bays have a 19th-century plank door under a bracketed canopy with two-light side windows and a two-light window above. A three-light window is present on each floor to the right. All windows are replacements from 1998. The right return displays a pink brick cellar wall in Flemish bond, with a two-light window (dated 1998). Beneath the tile-hanging is 17th-century close-studded timber framing with hollow-moulded wooden mullion windows, of four lights to the ground and first floors, and two lights to the attic. The rear elevation has various small-pane windows in the outshut, three first-floor windows, and a 1998 Velux roof-light.

Inside the right-hand section, apart from the close-studded gable wall, the framing appears earlier, with large-scantling wall posts and massive arch braces, including to the central cross-wall partition. Features include chamfered beams with stepped cyma stops, wide floorboards, and a raised floor to the right-hand ground floor room creating a brick-paved cellar. Similar brick paving is found in the hall. An inserted 18th-century staircase with turned balusters leads to the landing, and there are two-panel doors on the first floor. The roof structure retains 17th-century queen-post roof trusses with clasped purlins and pegged rafters. The left-hand section is separately framed with square panels. A ground-floor room features an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered timber bressumer, two high-set two-light mullion windows, terracotta floor tiles, and a board entrance door in a finely-moulded architrave with bulbous terminals. Chamfered beams with lambs-tongue stops are present on both floors. This is a multi-phase timber-framed house retaining several interesting features.