Cornwells

This is a mid-17th century farmhouse with a facade dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. It is timber framed and constructed with a lobby entry plan, comprising an original three-bay section and a two-bay cross-wing projecting to the rear. The ground floor is built of red and grey brick in Flemish bond, while the first floor is tile-hung. The roof is tiled, steeply pitched, with a hip returning to the left and half-hipped with a gablet to the right. There are three brick stacks: one of red and grey brick rises from the ridge of the left-central bay, a 19th-century brick stack projects from the front wall towards the right end, and another red and grey brick stack runs along the long right side of the wing. The windows are irregular, featuring three casements, one three-light each side of the central stack, one two-light under the stack, and no windows to the right end bay. A ribbed door is situated under the central stack, covered by a flat bracketed hood. A weatherboarded lean-to extends along the left side of the wing, including a louvred window which may have served as a dairy. A single-storey addition of red and grey brick, dating to the late 18th or early 19th century, is attached to the right, with a hipped plain-tile roof and two two-light casements.

Internally, there is exposed timber framing and chamfered beams. The house features two large fireplaces: one is a plain, painted brick fireplace in English bond, with a chamfered bressumer, niches, and a small salt cupboard to the left; the other is on the right. Shaped and gunstock jowls are present on the principal posts. The right end bay of the roof is partitioned off with vertical and horizontal lathing. The roof itself is a clasped purlin design, featuring raked jowled queen posts and windbraces.