Farmhouse Rest Home

MATERIALS: timber framing encased in red brick, now painted; modern clay tile roof.

PLAN: at ground-floor level the C17 house plan largely survives, although a partition has been inserted on the north side of the east room to create a corridor. To the rear is an outshut. The attic has been subdivided into bedrooms and bathrooms.

EXTERIOR: one storey high plus attic with a pitched roof, originally half-hipped at the east end. The front (north) elevation has a plat band and an early-mid C19 tripartite sash window with glazing bars. The porch has an early-C19 six-panelled door and a narrow sash window to the upper floor. The front wing, which obscured the eastern bay of the original house, has been almost entirely subsumed into the 1987 extension. There are large modern dormers to all rear roof slopes.

INTERIOR: the east and west rooms have deep-chamfered axial beams and stops with elongated steps and runouts, exposed joists (those to the west room chamfered, some with runout stops) and fireplace bressumers. A post is exposed in the north wall of the east room (now within the corridor). The rear south-west room has square framing to the north and west walls and exposed joists; the chamfered main beam has stops carved with a raised pyramidal moulding. A substantial brick fireplace has a bressumer and niche to left side, possibly a former bread oven. The truss of the eastern gable is partially visible in an attic bedroom; it is unclear how much of the roof structure survives.