Little Farnham

Little Farnham is a house with origins dating back to the 17th century, which was refurbished and enlarged in the early 19th century, with some modernisation in the 20th century. The exterior features coursed sandstone ashlar, and the front block is timber-framed above the first floor level, with weatherboarded end walls. It has brick stacks and chimney shafts, topped by a peg-tile roof.

The house faces east-southeast and has a plan that includes a front block with either a two or three-room layout. An axial stack is located between the centre and the right (north) end rooms, while a parallel rear projection extends at right angles to the back of the centre and right rooms. Although internal details could not be inspected during the survey, the framing on the front suggests that the front block is primarily 17th century, with the ground floor level underbuilt in the 19th century. It is likely that the house originally had a lobby entrance plan.

The building is two storeys high, with a 20th-century single-storey extension on the right (north) end. The attractive two-window front features 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The left first-floor window is topped with a gable, while the right window is a canted bay under the gable end of a crosswing, which has plain bargeboards and an apex finial. The first-floor framing consists of three bays with curving tension braces, and the left end is certainly from the 17th century. The front doorway is roughly central, set behind a gabled stone porch with a segmental outer arch and a projecting keystone, beneath a plaque carved with a heraldic motif. The gable features coping, and the main roof is gable-ended.

The interior was not available for inspection during the survey, but the owner reports that there are 17th-century beams in the front block.