Babylon Farmhouse

Babylon Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the first half of the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber frame, with the ground floor clad in painted brick. The first floor of the main range is weatherboarded, while the first floor of the left wing is tile-hung. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has three timber-framed bays, along with a short two-storey wing that projects forward from the left end bay. The building stands two storeys high on a stone plinth, with a roof that has a slightly lower ridge to the right of the stack. There is a brick ridge stack on the left end of the right bay, accompanied by a smaller flue in the lean-to behind. The windows are arranged irregularly, with three casements: one two-light window in the 19th-century wing and two three-light windows in the main range. A boarded door is located in the 19th-century painted brick lean-to at the junction with the wing. There is also a rear lean-to attached to the right bay only, while a two-storey extension built in the 1980s at the rear is not included in the listing.

Inside, the farmhouse features exposed framing and cut jowls. The beams have ogee chamfer-stops, and there are mortices for a frieze window of at least four lights with moulded and subsidiary mullions on the rear wall of the central ground floor room. The central room includes an inglenook fireplace, and there is a broad fireplace that straddles the right end bay and the lean-to, featuring chamfered stone jambs with vase stops. The roof has clasped purlins with diminishing principal rafters, curved wind-braces, queen-struts to the collars, and intermediate collars. The right bay of the roof was rebuilt in the late 18th century or 19th century.