Biggenden Farmhouse

Biggenden Farmhouse is probably an early 17th-century farmhouse, with later 19th and 20th-century alterations. It is timber-framed, with the ground floor weatherboarded and hung with peg tiles above. Brick stacks and chimney shafts are present, and the roof is covered in peg tiles.

The farmhouse faces south, and follows a three-room lobby entrance plan. The room on the left (west) end was originally unheated but received a projecting end stack in the 19th century. The central room is the largest, originally serving as the main parlour and kitchen, and was the only heated room. Its axial stack backs onto the left end room and front lobby entrance. The room on the right end was originally the service area, and remains divided into two by an axial wall, likely serving as a buttery and dairy. Rear outshots include a bakehouse on the rear right, with a lateral stack potentially dating to the 18th century. A further stack in the left rear corner of the outshots is 19th century.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics in the roofspace, with secondary lean-to outshots to the rear and a 20th-century single-storey extension on the right end.

The front elevation is largely symmetrical, except for the 20th-century plank front door located slightly left of centre, with cover strips. The fenestration dates to the 19th century, with four ground-floor windows - two 12-pane sashes in the centre and two 24-pane sashes on the outer edges. There are three 20-pane sashes on the first floor. The main roof is half-hipped at both ends.

The original timber-framed structure is well-preserved, exhibiting large framing with large, curving tension braces. The larger rooms have chamfered axial beams with run-out stops, wall posts with formed jowls, and a roof with four uneven bays of tie beam trusses and clasped side purlins. The original fireplace is blocked, but retains evidence of its large size. The farmhouse also incorporates older joinery details, such as plank doors.

Biggenden is a well-preserved 17th-century farmhouse, notable for the survival of the original service partition.