Exted Farm

Exted Farm is a farmhouse dating from the 15th century or early 16th century, with alterations from the late 16th century or early 17th century and a late 18th century facade. It is timber framed, with the front elevation featuring red and grey brick in Flemish bond and a plain tile roof. The building has an open hall consisting of two timber-framed bays, with a cross-wing on the left that is flush with the front elevation and may slightly project to the rear. To the right of the hall is a storeyed end bay, which has a timber-framed rear addition. The farmhouse is two storeys high. The left cross-wing has higher eaves than the hall and a similar ridge, with a hipped roof at the front. The main range also has a hipped roof, sloping to the right. There is a projecting brick stack on the left side of the wing and another brick stack on the front slope of the roof at the left end of the hall bay. A small 19th-century stack is located to the left of the right end bay. The windows are arranged irregularly and include four windows: a pair of four-pane sashes with a central mullion at the front of the left cross-wing, a small single-light casement at the left end of the hall, a small two-light window through a hipped-roof dormer at the right hall bay, and a small two-light casement at the right end bay. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads. There is a ribbed door with a segmental head at the left end of the hall. The timber-framed rear return wing to the right is faced with red and grey brick in English bond, with part of the first floor of the rear gable end tile-hung. The ridge of this wing is lower than that of the main range, and its roof is hipped to the rear. A two-storey brick turret with a lean-to roof is situated at the angle with the main range, and there is a rear lean-to on the left cross-wing. A broad segmental-headed rear doorway is located at the left end of the hall. The interior has only been partly inspected, but features include a moulded and brattished beam at the right end of the hall, a chamfered axial beam and joists for the inserted hall floor, and a roll-moulded fireplace bressumer with a rose in the spandrel at the left end of the hall, along with ceiling beams in the rear right wing.