Mead Farm

Mead Farm is a farmhouse dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with later alterations and a largely 18th-century facade. It is timber framed, with the front elevation featuring red brick and grey headers that create vertical chains at each end and a diamond pattern towards the center. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a steeply-pitched hipped design. The building has two storeys and sits on a rendered plinth. There is a brick stack on the left end, located in the shorter left hall bay, and a projecting brick stack at the right gable end. The windows are irregularly arranged, consisting of three 20th-century casements: one two-light on the left and two three-light windows. The ground-floor windows originally had segmental heads. A ribbed door is set in a 20th-century timber-framed porch, which has herringbone brick infilling and a gabled plain tile roof beneath the stack. At the rear, there is a lean-to. The interior has only been partly inspected, but features include a moulded and formerly brattished beam at the right end of the hall, a chamfered axial beam in the right end bay, and a chamfered axial beam with joists in the inserted floor of the right hall bay.