Turkey Farm House

Turkey Farm House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 15th century or early 16th century, with some rebuilding in the 17th century and a facade from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building is timber framed, with the ground floor constructed of red and grey brick in Flemish bond and the first floor weatherboarded. It has a plain tile roof. The right end bay, dating from the late 15th or early 16th century, is framed as a flush cross-wing and likely represents the storeyed right end bay of a former open hall. The remainder of the house was rebuilt in the 17th century, featuring a lobby entry plan with two timber-framed bays flanking a stack. The house has two storeys and a garret on a brick plinth, with an underbuilt jetty on the right side and the present rear gable end of the right cross-wing. The roof is half-hipped, with a brick ridge stack situated between the central and left end bays, and a truncated projecting brick stack at the right gable end. The fenestration is irregular, consisting of four casements: one three-light window to the left, two three-light windows to the right, and one single-light window beneath the stack. There is a boarded and half-glazed door beneath the stack, as well as lean-tos on the left gable end and at the rear to the left.

Inside, the house features exposed framing, including a chamfered axial beam and joists, along with plain brick fireplaces with bressumers in each 17th-century ground floor room. There is a blocked first-floor diamond mullion window in the left gable end. The right cross-wing has a rear dragon beam on the ground floor, and the first-floor left side partition wall includes a foot-braced central stud, chamfered posts, a wall-plate, and a cambered central tie-beam with solid-spandrel braces. The roof over the entire building is a 17th-century clasped-purlin design, featuring diminishing principal rafters, vertical queen struts supporting the rafters under the collar ends, and occasional straight windbraces.