Batsford Farmhouse

Batsford Farmhouse is a late medieval farmhouse that may have been constructed in three different phases, with 16th-century additions at both ends. The building features a timber frame with plaster between the studwork, some weatherboarding, and a corrugated iron roof that has replaced the original thatch. It has two storeys with attics and a cross passage plan, which includes an inbuilt stack bay and a single-cell hall, possibly with an additional parlour cell on the right. The lower end has a single-cell service bay on the left, which may have originally been further divided.

The ground floor is open, revealing the studwork on the facade. The cross passage has a soffit with a 4-centred arch. An off-centre inbuilt brick stack features a richly moulded bresummer with a cornice on the ground floor and a 4-centre chamfered arched bresummer on the first floor, with stone cheeks around the fireplaces. There is an in situ door off the cross passage in the stack bay at the rear. The ground floor hall and parlour have stopped and chamfered spine beams and closely set joists. There are mortices for a post and panel screen between the hall and parlour, as well as for an oriel and sliding internal shutters in the north wall plate of the hall.

On the first floor, the chamber above the hall has mortices for a four-light diamond-section mullioned window, with one moulded mullion still in place. The close stud walls feature passage braces on the right wall of the first-floor room. The stairs to the attic, located in the stack bay on the north side, are wider. The roof over the earlier central build has three Queen post struts supporting clasped purlins, windbraces, and a ridgeless apex. The roof over the right additions has closely set paired rafters and collars, while the roof over the left service addition has a single collar to the principal rafter, with the gable running down as a long outshut to ground floor level. The service wing was originally floored and likely contained two ground and one first-floor chamber. The roof is half-hipped on the right and features a long outshut gable on the left.