The Old Farmhouse

The Old Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 16th century, with additions from the early and mid-17th century and later alterations. It is timber framed and rendered, with the first floor of the right gable end covered in weatherboarding. The roof is plain tiled and features a lobby entry plan consisting of two timber-framed bays and a central stack bay. To the north (right), there is a 17th-century addition, possibly built in two stages, which includes three timber-framed bays, with the central bay being very narrow. Behind this addition is a 17th-century wing consisting of one timber-framed bay. The house has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar, all resting on a rendered plinth. The structure is gabled and has a multiple brick stack on the front slope of the roof, located at the second bay from the south, as well as a multiple brick ridge stack at the north gable end. There are three small hipped dormers and irregular fenestration featuring eight small wooden casements. A boarded door is located under an open porch towards the north end, and there is a blocked doorway beneath the left stack. To the left, there is a rendered two-storey lean-to, and towards the north end, a two-storey rear wing with a weatherboarded first floor and a gable and half-hipped roof, which has a deep garret window that may have once served as a loading door. The main range also has a rear lean-to. Inside, the farmhouse features exposed framing, chamfered beams and joists, and mortices for diamond mullion windows in both sections. The roof has clasped purlins with windbraces and diminishing rafters in both sections, although the late 16th-century section has heavier scantling. The wing previously had a clasped purlin roof. The south ground-floor room contains a fireplace with moulded stone jambs and a chamfered wooden bressumer, while the north side of the same stack and the north end have chamfered stone fireplaces with wooden bressumers. There is also a small stone fireplace in the first-floor south room.