Buckham Hill House

Buckham Hill House is a farmhouse with a complex history, incorporating elements from the 16th century and earlier, with later 18th and 19th-century additions. The rear section of the house dates back to around 1500, while the front section was built in the 16th century. Early 20th-century details were also added to the exterior. The house is timber framed, with tile hanging to the front and a brick skin to the rear. It has an old tile roof and comprises a front and rear pile, together forming a "T" plan. The front pile, facing the garden, has a four-bay, two-cell plan with a baffle entry and a projecting stack. It features three ground-floor, three-light, and three three-light one two-light leaded casement windows in timber frames. A hipped porch was added in the 20th century. The brick stack has two flues and a massive, corbelled cap. The interior of the front pile follows a three-cell baffle entry plan, with two diamond-mullioned casements in ground and first floor rooms on the north side. Throughout, there are stop-chamfered spine beams and substantial timber framing. The rear pile from around 1500 includes a ground-floor room now divided into two, featuring stop-chamfered spine beams and joists. Substantial angle posts and plates are crudely chamfered. An in-built stack is present. A staircase, constructed in the 20th century in a traditional idiom resembling 17th-century style balusters, is built into the bay between the 16th and 17th century sections. The 1500 section has a paired collar and rafter roof, while the front pile has an unusual Queen post truss purlin roof of four bays.

In addition to this original structure, Buckham Hill House also comprises a late 18th-century central portion and two flanking wings. The central portion is three storeys high with three windows and is faced with Roman cement, topped with a slate roof. The original glazing bars remain intact, and a porch with coupled fluted Doric columns has been added. The wings, likely added in the 19th century, are two storeys high with three windows each. Later additions incorporate large bays of three windows on the ground floor of each wing.