Farm Cottage

Farm Cottage is a house, currently used as a hostel, dating from around the middle to late 17th century. It was altered in the mid-19th century when it was divided into two cottages, followed by internal re-planning in the 20th century and the addition of a 20th-century rear wing. The structure is framed and rests on brick foundations of various dates. The first floor has tile-hanging with bands of decorative tiles, and the roof is covered in peg tiles with brick stacks.

The original plan comprised a single-depth range, four rooms wide. A 20th-century wing extends at right angles, creating a T-shaped layout. The original layout is unclear, but the current arrangement, featuring a room heated by an end stack and another by a central axial stack, likely resulted from the division into cottages, giving each a heated parlour and a unheated service room. The axial stack is original to the 17th century.

The west-facing front has an asymmetrical 4-window arrangement. Two identical 19th or 20th-century porches with hipped roofs on brick piers contain 19th-century plank doors covered with strips. Four 3-light 19th-century casement windows are on the first floor, each with two panes per light. Three similar ground floor casement windows have recessed sills beneath 19th-century chamfered stop-chamfered lintels. The rear elevation retains 19th-century plank doors and casement windows. Gabled ends finish the roofline.

Inside, the first ground floor room retains a 17th-century chamfered spine beam with run-out stops. Ceiling beams of large scantling are purportedly present elsewhere, though they are now plastered over. The 17th-century roof structure, with clasped purlins, survives but has been heavily repaired in the 20th century.

The cottage has an appealing 19th-century exterior with some surviving 17th-century interior features.