Martins Farmhouse

Martins Farmhouse, now a house row, dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was restored in the early 20th century. The house is timber framed with rendered infilling, and has beaded weatherboarding on the rear of the main range. The roof is covered with plain tiles.

The original design consisted of an open hall of two roughly equal-length bays, with an undershot cross-passage to the left, and storeyed end bays. The left hall bay was floored in the 16th century. The right hall bay was partly floored later in the 16th century, possibly in two stages, forming a smoke bay or stack bay towards the centre of the former hall. A stone stack was likely inserted in the same position, slightly later. A rear wing of approximately four timber-framed bays forms Nos. 1 and 2 Park Lane, to the right.

The main range has a stone plinth and lower midrail to the right end bay. There's a gable end jetty to the right. The framing is broadly spaced, with arch braces to the first floor of both end bays and to the ground floor of the right end bay, and tension braces to the right gable end. The eaves are flat-boarded. The roof is hipped to the left and three-quarters hipped to the right, with gablets. A slender red brick stack is set in a lean-to to the left, while multiple brick stacks are in the front slope of the roof, two straddling the two central bays, and one to the left end of the right end bay. The fenestration is irregular, featuring four three-light leaded casements, two of which are oriels, with rendered ogee bases. A ribbed door with a flat corniced and bracketed hood sits under the central stack. A lean-to is set back to the left.

Nos. 1 and 2 Park Lane exhibit exposed, broadly-spaced studding. They are two storeys and attic, with higher eaves than the main range. The roof is hipped to the south and has one hipped dormer. There's a filleted brick stack at the junction of the main range and wing. Four casements and three ribbed doors, each with a flat bracketed hood (one under a stack, one towards the centre, and one towards the right end), are present.

The interior, only partly inspected, reveals exposed framing. There’s a moulded beam at the right end of the hall, and plain crown posts with foot braces at each end of the hall, and a plain crown post with a chamfered base on an axial tie-beam to the left end bay. A painted first-floor stone fireplace is located to the left of the stack, and a similar, larger fireplace is on the ground floor.