Iden Farm

Iden Farm is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 16th century, with later alterations in the 16th and 18th centuries. It was restored between 1985 and 1986. The building features a timber frame, with the ground floor constructed of evenly-coursed galleted stone. The first floor has exposed framing with rendered infilling, and the right gable end is tile-hung. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has four timber-framed bays, with three on the left (north) that are relatively narrow. The structure is two storeys high and sits on a stone plinth. The 18th-century close-studding is made of thin scantling and includes straight tension braces. There is an underbuilt gable-end jetty on the right side. The roof is hipped to the left with a gablet and half-hipped to the right. A multiple brick ridge stack is located on the second timber-framed bay from the left. The windows are irregularly arranged, with four casements: one 2-light in each of the two left bays and the right end bay, and one 4-light in the second bay from the right. The two outer windows have pegged cills. There is a boarded door to the left of the right end bay, set in a porch made of stone, timber, and brick, topped with a hipped plain-tile roof. A galleted stone lean-to is located at the rear.

Inside, the building has exposed framing, with gunstock-jowled posts, some of which are relatively heavy. There is an arch-braced tie-beam and an apparently integral first-floor partition adjoining the north side of the stack, as well as another partition between the south-central and south end bays. Mortices for an unbraced partition are found on the truss immediately south of the stack. The ground floor has no subdivision between the stack and the south gable end. Stairs are positioned between the stack and the front wall. The east half of the north end bay is entirely occupied by the rear of the stack. There is a fireplace in the east half of the north-central bay, featuring a chamfered bressumer and chamfered stone jambs with a mason's mark and the initialed letters MN. Mortices for a diamond mullion window are present on each floor of the north gable end. The roof may have been rebuilt in the later 16th or 17th century, with trusses that do not match the tie-beams, clasped purlins with windbraces, and diminishing principal rafters.