Kenward Farmhouse

The Kenward Farmhouse, now a house, dates to the late 16th century, with alterations made in the late 18th or early 19th century. It is timber-framed, with a ground floor of chequered red and grey brick and rendered infilling to the first floor. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The building has an L-shaped layout: a three-bay timber-framed front range, the bay to the left being longer, and a two-bay timber-framed rear wing with a stack. Originally, there was no direct connection between the front range and the wing on either the ground or first floor.

The farmhouse is two storeys and has a garret. The front range has a continuous jetty, returned to the left and underbuilt in the 18th or 19th century. The first floor exhibits exposed close-studding of light timber, with an ogee tension brace to the left and a straight tension brace towards the centre. The wing has similar studding, but with brick infilling to the ground floor. The front range has a gabled front, with the left gable featuring a moulded pendant and plain bargeboards projecting on scrolled brackets. The wing has a hipped rear roof. There are multiple red and grey brick ridge stacks to the front end of the wing and a slender projecting red and grey brick stack to the right gable end of the front range. The windows are irregular, featuring two-paned three-light casements; some ground-floor windows have shallow bracketed hoods. A blocked window with a pegged cill sits under the eaves at the right end of the central bay. The left side of the wing has a four-light casement and a blocked three-light mullioned window. Two blocked diamond mullion first-floor windows are on the rear of the front range. A central panelled door leads into the front range; a blocked doorway is to its right. A rear lean-to extends from the angle between the front range and the wing.

Inside, the framing is exposed. The ground floor of the front range has a former off-centre passage to the right half of the central bay, behind the blocked front door. This passage is flanked by a chamfered plank-and-muntin partition on the left and a beam morticed for a stud partition with a possible pair of doorways towards the centre on the right. An axial beam runs through the passage. A right-end room has a central axial beam morticed for a partition, and the left-end room (originally 1 1/2 timber-framed bays) has chamfered cross beams and a dragon beam. A moulded four-centred-arched stone fireplace with hollow spandrels and a bread oven with an iron door are located at the rear of the left bay; the fireback is dated 1588. The rear wing contains a blocked fireplace, chamfered axial beams, and bevelled joists. Originally, the first floor of the front range had one two-bay room with chamfered beams to the left and one single-bay room to the right. Panelled doors are present. The roof structure consists of clasped purlins with diminishing principal rafters and windbraces, with no queen struts; the front range has intermediate collars. The building was formerly known as Kenwood Farm Cottages.