Summerthorn Farmhouse

Summerthorn Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating to the late 17th century, with alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is situated end-on to the road, facing east. The main range is framed timber construction, with the ground floor underbuilt in Flemish bond brick, featuring blue headers. A moulded fascia board runs along the first floor, and the upper storey is tile-hung, incorporating bands of scalloped tiles. A rear wing has brick nogging to the ground floor, and a 19th-century addition is tile-hung with brown shaped tiles, all under a peg-tile roof. Brick stacks are prominent.

The house has a L-shaped plan, initially comprising two rooms with an entrance into a central passage containing the staircase. The parlour to the south and the kitchen to the north were originally the primary rooms, with an unheated service room to the rear right. In the 18th century, the house underwent refurbishment, including re-windowing and likely partial brick underbuilding. A heated kitchen wing was added in the 19th century, extending the rear left corner and creating a double-depth plan. The original kitchen was then converted into a second parlour. The farmhouse has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar. The roof is hipped at the right (north) end of the main range, gabled at the left, and gabled at the rear of the service wing. A large, projecting double stack at the right end serves the original kitchen fireplace. The front elevation is slightly asymmetrical, featuring three windows, with steps leading to a centrally positioned 18th-century six-panel front door, topped with an overlight and flat porch hood supported by brackets. Ground floor windows are tripartite sashes, likely of 18th-century origin but reglazed with 19th-century four-pane sashes. First-floor windows are set within 18th-century moulded architraves and similarly glazed with 19th-century four-pane sashes. Three attic dormers, with hipped roofs and probable 19th-century two-light casements, are also present. The rear elevation incorporates 20th-century windows.

Inside, the two ground floor rooms have chamfered stopped ceiling beams. The room on the north side of the main range retains a massive kitchen fireplace spanning almost the entire width of the room, complete with an oak lintel and a brick strainer arch in the chimney breast. A 19th-century dog-leg staircase is present. Jowled wall posts of the timber framing are visible on the upper floor, alongside some surviving 18th-century joinery, including two-panel doors and a fitted wall cupboard. The roof space was inaccessible during the 1988 survey, but the rear wing retains old rafters.

Summerthorn Farmhouse is associated with the Children family, a prominent yeoman family in the area, reportedly from at least the 13th century. The farmhouse has group value with the listed farm buildings on the site.