Spicers Farm House

Spicers Farm House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to circa 1634, with alterations in the early to mid-19th century. It is timber framed with red brick infilling, likely largely of the 17th century, and has a plain tile roof. The house follows a lobby entry plan with four timber-framed bays; two to the left and one to the right of a stack bay. A short, separately framed rear wing, of a similar date, extends to the right of the centre.

The building is two storeys high, standing on a flint and stone plinth. It features a continuous jetty, supported by solid-spandrel brackets with ovolo-moulded bases, which returns along the right gable end on similarly-moulded dragon posts. The long right side of the rear wing is also jettied. The front elevation has broadly-spaced framing to the first floor, divided into two panels to storey height by pegged rails at uneven levels. There are tension braces to the left end bay and one to the right. The front range has a hipped roof, and the rear of the rear wing also has a hipped roof. A gable-end stack is located to the left of the front range, and a multiple brick stack rises from the rear slope of the roof to the right of the centre. A projecting brick gable end stack is present on the rear wing.

The fenestration is irregular, featuring Gothic casements, with one two-light window to each end bay and one three-light window to the left-central bay on the front elevation. There are three similar casements to the ground floor of the front range, and one to the first floor of the left side of the rear wing. A boarded door is located up two steps under the stack. A short lean-to adjoins the angle between the front range and wing. A two-storey addition from the 20th century extends to the right side of the wing.

The interior, only partly inspected, reveals plain-chamfered beams and joists in the ground-floor rooms. A painted brick fireplace with a long bressumer is located to the right side of the stack. An early 20th-century painting of the house shows a panel at the base of the first floor of the stack bay with the date 16(3/5?)4.