Furnace Farmhouse

Furnace Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the early 16th century, with early 18th-century cladding and a mid-19th-century extension. The main part of the house is timber framed and features red and blue chequered brick on the ground floor, set on a dressed stone base, with 19th-century rat-trap bond brickwork on the right side and tile hanging on the first floor. The extension is also made of red and blue brick, topped with a plain tiled roof. Originally, it was a late Wealden or early continuous jettied house.

The building stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a hipped roof and a gabled wing to the left that has moulded bargeboards. There are stacks at the rear left and clustered at the rear centre. The main range features two three-light wooden casements on each floor, a blocked garret window in the wing, a glazing bar sash and wooden casement on the first floor, and a glazing bar sash on the ground floor. To the right, there is a half-glazed door in an arched surround and a large flat-roofed porch. A later 19th-century canted bay is located on the left side.

Inside, the full frame is visible, with stop-chamfered main beams and mortices for the jetty, which returns to the right side on a dragon beam. The jettied wall plate on the right elevation is preserved behind the 19th-century cladding. The roof features unmoulded crown post trusses that are arch-braced to the tie beams, with soot blackening in the chimney bay indicating a former smoke bay. There are inglenook fireplaces with stencilled designs on the chimney breast.