Martins Farmhouse

Martins Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 15th or early 16th century, with later alterations and an early 20th-century facade featuring the applied date of 1721. The building is timber framed, with brick in stretcher bond on the right end of the ground floor, while the rest is pebbledashed. It has a plain tile roof and consists of four timber-framed bays, including a two-bay open hall with a storeyed bay at each end. The farmhouse is two storeys high, set on a high brick plinth, and has an underbuilt gable end jetty on the left side.

The right gable end displays exposed arch-braced tie-beams and studding of thin scantling with herringbone brick infilling. The roof is hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right, with a projecting gable end stack on the left and a ridge stack at the right end of the left hall bay. The front elevation features two rectangular first-floor bays, one at the left end and another in the right hall bay, both pebbledashed with exposed corner posts and rails, and topped with hipped plain tile roofs. The right bay may be partly from the 17th century.

The irregular fenestration includes four windows: one bipartite sash window (two panes per sash) in a moulded architrave for each rectangular bay and another at the right end. There is also a small two-light leaded casement window in the left hall bay. On the ground floor, there are two large early 20th-century canted bays located beneath the first-floor bays. The ground floor is built out between the bays to accommodate a panelled door with an ogee top light and flanking leaded lights with ogee heads, all under a corbelled triangular wooden canopy.

To the rear, there is a brick wing on the left and a rendered wing on the right. Inside, the left end room features broad axial joists that are morticed for a partition and include a stair trimmer in the rear right corner. There is a moulded beam at the right end of the hall, and a tension-braced partition at the left end of the hall. The principal posts have shaped jowls, and the central truss posts are rebated with a cambered tie-beam, chamfered arch braces, and a fillet. The right end bay has a pair of principal posts that suggest it was formerly subdivided into two narrow bays, although the tie-beam is no longer present. The roof has not been inspected.