Longage Farm

Farmhouse. Built in the early 17th century, with later alterations. The structure is timber-framed, with the ground floor painted brick, except for the left side of a wing which is constructed of red and grey brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The first floor is tile-hung. The rear elevation uses small red and grey bricks in a mixed bond. The roof is tiled. The main range has four timber-framed bays; two at the centre forming a principal room, a short bay to the left end, and another, likely originally a stack bay, to the right. A cross-wing extends to the right, with three timber-framed bays, projecting slightly to both the front and rear.

The farmhouse has two storeys. A continuous jetty extends across the main range, returning to the left on a moulded dragon post, and again to the rear; it is underbuilt at the left end and rear. The wing is also jettied to the front and long right side, featuring a scrolled, carved bracket to the front right corner and another to the rear end of the right side. The main range roof is gabled to the left, hipped down to the wing on the right. The wing roof is hipped to both the front and rear, with a gablet. A slender projecting brick stack from the 19th century is positioned at the left gable end. Later brick stacks were added to the centre of the main range and towards the front of a wing.

The fenestration is irregular with four windows: a three-light casement to the left end bay, one towards the centre, one to the wing, and a two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window to the right end of the main range. A ribbed and boarded door is set within a beaded rectangular architrave on the right end of the wing. A two-storey turret with a hipped roof is located in the rear angle between the main range and the wing.

Internally, the former principal room of the main range features a ceiling divided into six panels by a moulded cross beam and tenoned axial beams. The right and left end beams are also moulded. Chamfered dragon beams are present in the left end room. A first-floor partition with tension braces connects the left end and principal rooms. The former two-bay rear room of the wing has ovolo-moulded cross and axial beams with panelled soffits, dividing the ceiling into nine panels. A similar arrangement is seen on the first floor. The main range has a clasped-purlin roof, with principal rafters trenched over purlins and a lower tier of aligned butt purlins. The wing roof is similar, but with a lower ridge and without the lower tier of purlins.