Farthings

This is a house, likely originating in the late Medieval period, significantly remodelled around the late 17th and 18th/19th centuries, with further alterations in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The construction combines timber framing with brick nogging, English and Flemish bond brickwork, and fish-scale tile-hanging to the front. The roof is tiled with half-hipped ends, and features a brick axial stack.

The original layout was a 3-room plan, with an axial stack and back-to-back fireplaces warming the central and left-hand rooms. The left (north) room, constructed of brick in the 17th century, is likely an addition. The other two bays represent the earlier timber-framed house, with the central bay possibly originally an open hall, later floored following the 17th-century extension and the addition of the stack. The front and right-hand end walls were rebuilt in brick, likely in the late 18th or early 19th century. A small wash house wing was added to the rear of the left-hand end, dating to the late 18th or 19th century. The partition between the central and right (south) rooms has been partially removed.

The west-facing front is largely symmetrical and features a tile-hung facade with three small gabled attic windows. Windows are predominantly 20th-century casements, with 2- and 4-light openings on the ground floor and 2-light openings in the attic. A 19th-century brick porch with an elliptical arch shelters the doorway to the left of centre. The rear of the house displays exposed timber framing with curved tension braces and brick nogging, alongside a 19th-century Gothic 2-light iron casement on the ground floor. A small gable sits above the window, and a single-storey wing with a half-hipped roof is located on the right-hand side.

The interior reveals exposed timber-framed partition walls. The partition between the central and right-hand rooms has been partly removed, and both rooms feature deeply chamfered axial beams. The central room has hollow step stops to the beam and a brick fireplace with a slightly chamfered, cambered timber lintel. The left (north) room has a deeply chamfered axial beam with run-out stops, a brick fireplace with a curved back, oven, and a new lintel. On the first floor, a queen-post truss is exposed in the partition, along with curved wind braces. Clasped purlins and some re-used common-rafters appear to be smoke-blackened.