Parsonage Farm

Parsonage Farm is a house dating back to the early 14th century, with significant additions from the 15th, 16th, and 18th centuries. The south range may not have been originally domestic. The building is set back within its own grounds.

The south range is constructed of ragstone, with the left (east) gable rendered above the tie-beam and the right gable tile-hung above the tie-beam. It has a plain tile roof. The east range is timber framed on a galletted flint plinth; the ground floor is covered in 18th-century brick, and the first floor is rendered. The layout is an L-shape, with the south range at right angles to the street and the east range running north from it.

The north elevation of the south range has two storeys. The left section is from the early 14th century and features a large projecting stone stack to the rear. There are no windows on the front. A two-centred arched door is on the first floor at the right end of this section, reached by external steps parallel to the building. A door with a shouldered head is on the ground floor in the angle with the east range. The right section dates to the 15th century and has two first-floor windows: a two-light Perpendicular window towards the left end and a single oblong light with a chamfered architrave towards the right. A door with a chamfered, arched head is on the ground floor between them.

The west elevation of the east range, dating from the 14th or 15th century, has 16th and 18th-century additions and alterations. It has two storeys. The right side of the range is roofed over the whole span, while the left side has two parallel roofs of unequal width and at a lower pitch than that to the right. A stack is positioned in the rear slope of the roof, off-centre to the right. The fenestration is irregular, with five 19th- and 20th-century leaded casements: one of three lights towards the left end, one of two lights not far to the right, a central two-storey 19th-century canted bay of three lights on each floor, a two-light leaded casement to the right of the bay, and another of three lights at the right end. A door forms a lobby entry to the right of the canted bay. A 20th-century doorcase featuring fluted Ionic pilasters truncated at the base and an ill-fitting triangular pediment has been inserted. A blocked 19th-century door is to the left of the canted bay.

The interior of the south range has a moulded crown-post, a large first-floor fireplace with a moulded cambered arch, and a Perpendicular two-light first-floor window in the east gable. The east range includes exposed beams and posts, moulded door-posts on the first floor to the west of the stack, and an early 18th-century panelled corniced room with a corner fireplace and windows with thick glazing bars on the ground floor to the east of the stack.