Little Cheveney Farm

Little Cheveney Farm is a late 16th-century farmhouse with a facade dating to the late 18th or early 19th century, restored in the 1930s. It is timber framed and constructed with ground-floor red brick in Flemish bond and a tile-hung first floor, covered by a plain tile roof. The building follows a lobby entry plan with 4 timber-framed bays and a central stack bay. Originally with a continuous jetty, it’s now gabled with a central multiple brick ridge stack. The fenestration is irregular, featuring three casement windows towards the centre; a two-light window is located beneath the stack, and a four-light window to each flanking room. A half-glazed door is topped with a corniced and bracketed hood over the stack. Later rear wings extend from the right and left sides, the right wing with a long single-storey extension. A rear lean-to is located centrally. Internally, exposed timber framing is visible. Ground-floor rooms on either side of the stack show moulded axial and cross-beams, chamfered joists, and plain brick fireplaces with chamfered bressumers. First-floor rooms flanking the stack have chamfered axial beams and joists, with chamfered brick fireplaces featuring high broach stops and cambered bressumers. Exposed framing is also present in the right and left end rooms, along with shutter grooves. The roof structure includes a clasped-purlin design with diminishing principal rafters, cambered and intermediate collars, and a full set of windbraces.