Down Farmhouse

Down Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse that was extended around 1900. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with the extension in stretcher bond, and features a clay plain tile roof with half-hipped ends and a brick axial stack. The layout includes two front rooms and a central entrance lobby that leads to winder stairs next to the axial stack, with back-to-back fireplaces and small service rooms in an integral outshut at the rear.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and presents an asymmetrical three-window front, with the right-hand bay being the later addition. The windows are three-light casements set in openings with cambered arches; the left window has 19th-century cast-iron casements with lozenge panes. There is a doorway to the left of centre featuring a circa 1900 gabled brick porch. The house has three hipped dormers, including a small earlier dormer with lozenge pane casements. At the rear, the roof extends down as a catslide over the outshut, which includes a hipped dormer. The left end gable reveals an exposed roof truss.

Inside, the farmhouse features chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops. The fireplaces have been blocked by later insertions, but the attic fireplace retains a cast-iron chimneypiece. There are plank doors, and the original roof displays cranked principal rafters, resembling raised crucks.