Home Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the 16th century, with alterations and additions in the 17th and late 18th or early 19th centuries, and a late 18th or early 19th century facade. The house is timber framed, with weatherboarding to most elevations, except for part of the ground floor of the rear, which has red brick infilling between exposed bay posts. It has a plain tile roof. The original house comprised two and a half bays, framed parallel to the road, and likely extending further to the left. A broad two-bay timber-framed addition was built in the 17th century, set at right angles to the road, running towards the road from, and completely spanning, the original 16th-century section. A further range was added along the whole of the long north side in the late 18th or early 19th century, including the right gable end of the 16th-century section. The house is two stories high. The 17th-century section has a jetty underbuilt on moulded brackets to the road gable end. The front (north) elevation has a brick plinth and higher eaves than the 16th and 17th century sections. It features a weatherboarded parapet with a reeded cornice band, returned along the entire road frontage, as well as a hipped roof. The 16th-century section has lower eaves and ridge, with a weatherboarded gable flush with the rear elevation. Rear stacks are located to the right and left of the front range. A multiple red and grey brick stack sits at the right end of the 17th-century section, to the right of the centre of the house. The front (north) elevation has a regular three-window arrangement of 12-pane sashes, along with two similar sashes to the road return elevation. A two-light first-floor casement is located at the rear. The central doorway has six fielded panels with a rectangular fanlight, beneath a corniced flat-roofed porch with reeded columns. A rear door has flush panels under a stack. The interior retains exposed framing in the 16th and 17th century sections. The 16th-century section features broad joists, evidence of former internal subdivisions, a blocked four-light diamond mullion ground-floor window to the north gable end, gunstock-jowled posts, and an un-sooted sans-purlin collared common-rafter roof. The 17th-century section retains close-studded north wall and east (road) gable end on the ground floor, with blocked ovolo-moulded mullion windows under the former jetty and on the first floor to the south side of the stack, as well as chamfered beams, brick fireplaces with bressumers that serve the 16th-century section, a blocked ground-floor doorway in the north wall, and a clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters, windbraces, and queen struts. Also present are panelled doors, reeded niches and architraves, a late 18th or early 19th century fireplaces, and a staircase with stick balusters to the front range.