Petty Hoo

Petty Hoo is a farmhouse located on Bishops Lane, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame, with the ground floor finished in painted brick laid in Flemish bond and the first floor tile-hung. It has a plain tile roof and consists of five timber-framed bays, with the central bay and the bay to the right of center being shorter. The farmhouse may have been developed in two main stages during the 16th and 17th centuries.

It stands two storeys high with a garret on a brick plinth. There is a red brick stack parallel to the ridge in the short bay to the right of center. The windows are irregularly spaced, featuring two broadly spaced 2-light casements. There is a blocked door located under the stack and a boarded door in a short single-storey extension at the ridge gable end, which was added in the 20th century.

Inside, the farmhouse displays exposed framing, with broader, soffit-pegged joists in the second bay from the left and a braced first-floor partition at the right end of the same bay. The roof features gunstock jowls, with the left half ceiled. The right side of the roof has a clasped purlin structure with queen struts supporting the gable end collar, and there are mortices for windbraces.