Silkstead House

Silkstead House is a farmhouse, now a private residence, dating back to the 17th century, with significant alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries. The original timber-frame core was later encased in chequer-work brick. The building began as a 3-bay structure with a smoke bay, which was refaced in the 18th century and extended with a bay in the 19th century.

The garden front is two stories and has an attic. It is four bays wide, with a 19th-century bay added to the left. A doorway from the 18th century now has a 20th-century glazed door and is sheltered by an open timber gabled porch located between the right bays. To the left of the doorway is an early 20th-century canted bay; the other windows are 4-light casements from the 19th century on the ground floor and early 19th-century 1, 2, and 3-light cast iron casements with lozenge panes on the first floor. The right bays have 19th-century gabled dormers with bargeboards and matching casements. An external stack sits on the kneeler of the right gable. A ridge stack is in the centre, with octagonal shafts rising from a square base. The roof is hipped to the left.