Dog House Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the 17th century, with later alterations, a 19th-century facade, and a mid-20th-century addition to the right. The house is timber framed. The ground floor is constructed of red and grey brick in a mixed bond, while the first floor is rendered. The left gable end shows exposed principal posts and framing of two panels extending the full height of the storey, with brick infilling. The rear gable end of the left wing is timber-framed with curved tension braces. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The property is L-shaped, comprising a left cross-wing of three short timber-framed bays, projecting to the rear, and a main range of one bay, possibly with a stack bay towards the junction with the wing. A mid-20th-century addition is set to the right. There are two storeys. The fenestration is irregular, with two twenty-pane lights, some with casement openings, arranged in segmental heads. Similar windows are on the ground floor. A semi-octagonal, weatherboarded porch stands under the stack, featuring a swept lead roof, an acorn finial, projecting eaves with a pendant wooden fringe, and is supported on iron columns. The front door is of six fielded panels with paterae, and there are two twelve-pane lights, also with paterae. The right addition is set back, with a brick ground floor, weatherboarded first floor, a hipped plain tile roof, and one twelve-pane sash window. Inside, the right ground-floor room has a chamfered axial beam and a crossbeam in front of the stack. The wing’s front room contains two timber-framed bays, with a chamfered crossbeam terminating on a shaped bracket, chamfered joists, and slight evidence of a former front gable-end jetty. A rear bay was formerly partitioned off. There are chamfered rectangular doorways leading to the first floor. The interior also includes gunstock-jowled posts and mortices for a five-light mullion window with dowel subsidiary mullions to the front gable end of the wing on the first floor. Brick fireplaces with wooden bressumers are also present.