Barnfield Farmhouse

Barnfield Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century or earlier, with alterations from the 16th to 18th centuries and an extension in the late 19th century. It is timber-framed and weather-boarded, with a tile-hung cross-wing painted on the front elevation. The base is of red brick and sandstone, and the roofs are tiled. The house likely originated as a hall house, and has been rebuilt and extended, incorporating a cross-wing in the 16th or 17th century.

It is two storeys high, with a 2-storey and garret cross-wing. The main range has a hipped roof with stacks on the left and centre right. The cross-wing has a half-hipped roof. The cross-wing has wooden casement windows on each floor, and the main block has irregular rows of wooden casements. A boarded door is centrally placed, with a flat hood supported by brackets. Three half-hipped wings project at the rear, with wooden casements. Many casements retain 18th-century leaded crown glass. A red brick dairy is attached to the rear left.

The interior is fully timber-framed, showing several periods of construction. The right-hand end appears to be a 2-bay 16th-century cross-wing, with 1 bay of the main range; the central section of the main range was rebuilt and incorporated into the frame of this end section. The left-hand cross-wing is separately framed. Renewed clasped purlin roofs are throughout (probably dating from the 17th century). There are inglenooks with sandstone blocks at their bases, chamfered wooden chimney bressummers and coving. Brick floors are on the ground floor, and 14-inch oak boards to the upper floor. The area’s Great and Little Barnfield Hundreds are named after this site.