Parsonage Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the early to mid-15th century, with alterations in the later 16th century. The farmhouse is timber-framed and rendered, with the ground floor of the right-hand end bay clad in painted brick. The rear wall of the left wing is red brick in English bond, incorporating a moulded stone plinth that extends around part of the left-hand gable end of the main range. The right-hand wall of the wing is tile-hung. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The building is of a Wealden 4-bay timber-framed design, with a later 16th or 17th century two-storey, single-bay wing attached to the rear on the left. The farmhouse has two storeys, built on a stone plinth. The left-hand end bay is jettied, although the jetty was formerly returned on a moulded dragon post but has now been underbuilt. The right-hand end bay was formerly jettied to the front and side, with the jetty and dragon post visible from inside. The structure includes arch-braced flying wall-plates, a bracket under the central tie-beam, and hipped roof with gablets. A multiple brick ridge stack is located on the front slope of the roof, towards the left end of the hall. There is a projecting chequered brick stack to the right-hand gable end. The fenestration is irregular, featuring three casements: one 3-light window in each end bay, and one 4-light window above the right-hand stack, in the two-storey rectangular bay. A panelled door is situated at the right-hand end of the hall. Internally, there are doorways to each end of the hall with moulded jambs, 4-centred arched heads, and hollow spandrels. The hall features heavily braced end-of-hall crown posts, a moulded crown post on a cambered moulded tie-beam, and braced cross tie-beams with moulded crown posts to each end bay (likely also to the left). There are moulded beams to the inserted hall floor. A moulded 4-centred arched doorway with carved spandrels, also dating from the later 16th century, leads to a passage at the rear of the stack. A 4-centred arched fireplace is found in the left-hand end room.