Cherry Tree Farmhouse

Cherry Tree Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 15th century or earlier, with extensions from the 16th to 17th centuries and further alterations around 1880 at the rear. The building is timber framed and covered with weather boarding, featuring sections of red brick and tile hanging on the upper elevations. It has been extended with red brick at the rear and has plain tiled roofs. The structure is a hall house with cross-wings and has two storeys. The left wing projects with a jettied design, supported by dragon posts, and has a gabled roof, while the right wing is also gabled. There are stacks at the rear, with clustered and moulded stacks located towards the centre right.

On the first floor, there are three 19th-century mullioned and transomed windows, along with a single light window to the centre right above the door. The ground floor features two similar three-light windows and a three-light wooden casement on the left. The door consists of four panels with a glazed upper panel and is topped with a flat hood supported by brackets. The rear wing and outshot are made of 19th-century red brick and weather boarding.

Inside, the frame shows signs of significant alteration, particularly in the roof, where at least three tie beams at the junction of the hall and the jettied cross-wing have been placed successively above one another. The roof has tie beams and rafters throughout. The hall includes a brattished dais beam over a vertical overlapping timber screen, with quirk and tongue stopped chamfered ceiling beams and a large inglenook fireplace with a round-backed design in the right-hand cross-wing. The upper room of this wing features 17th-century wainscotting, with a fluted overmantel surround and raised panel, along with an early 17th-century door that has moulded arcaded panels. It is reputed that these elements may have come from the old Frittenden House, which was demolished in the late 19th century, although they may also be original to this building. Mullioned windows with shutter grooves are still visible, particularly in the jettied parlour wing.