Maydensole Farmhouse

Maydensole Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, altered in the early 18th century and extended around 1786. It features flint and red brick on the left return, with the façade refaced and extended in red brick. The roof is plain tiled. The building has two storeys on a plinth, with a discontinuous plat band and a parapet that steps up to the right, leading to a return-hipped cross-wing. There are stacks to the right and a projecting end that is twice offset on the left. The first floor has three glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor also has three, all with gauged heads. The central entrance is a half-glazed door set in a panelled, round-headed surround within a Doric porch. There is an original blocked doorway to the right, and the current door, added around 1786, interrupts the plat band.

Inside, there is a large open kitchen wing at the rear with an outside stair, containing remains of a bread oven and a copper, as well as a partly framed partition wall to the older front block. All doorways throughout the house have reeded surrounds with moulded circles, roses, and other motifs in the corners, with each doorway featuring a different pattern. The door panels display Greek key motifs. The main room includes an elliptically arched tripartite arcade on fluted pilasters at one end, along with reeded and moulded fire surrounds and fitted cupboards that disguise earlier inglenooks. The downstairs rooms have moulded skirting, dado rails, and cornices. The geometric staircase has a wreathed rail, scrolled open string, and unturned balusters. There are two cellars, one of which has a slate-tabled dairy. William Garside of Sutton Court purchased the property around 1786, and a brick on an attached wall outside is inscribed with "W.G.86." The farmhouse is notable for its well-preserved late 18th-century neo-classical detailing.