Hunt Street Farmhouse

Hunt Street Farmhouse is a hall house dating from the 15th and 17th centuries. It features a timber frame with exposed plaster infill and painted brick infill on the ground floor, topped by a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and an attic set on a rubble plinth. The first floor jetties out at the left end and also at the front to the right. The roof is hipped with gablets, and there is a projecting end stack to the left and a large stack to the right. A central two-storey gable, added around 1595, showcases decorative framing and pargetted plaster panels on the first floor, along with an oversailing gable adorned with carved bargeboards. The windows are irregularly arranged, including four wood casement windows, a two-storey bay window in the central gable, and a square bay window to the right. The entrance features a linen-fold panelled door within a moulded surround, leading to a screens passage on the left, which is sheltered by a gabled porch.

Inside, although the structure is now covered by a single roof running north-south, the right end bay retains an inner roof that runs west-east. The stack and first floor were inserted in the hall around 1595, coinciding with the addition of the two-storey gable. The porch was originally inscribed with initials belonging to the Chapman family and dated 1595. In 1971, a shoe from around 1605 and a bushel weight were discovered in a niche in the chimney, reflecting local building superstitions. The farmhouse was formerly known as Cake's Yoke and has since been named after the Hunte family, who were tenants in the 15th century.