Fairthorne House

Fairthorne House is a former farmhouse dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with some 19th and 20th-century modernisation. The building is timber-framed, with the ground floor underbuilt in painted brick. The upper part of the house features exposed framing, while the rear is tile-hung. A secondary rear block is constructed of red brick with tile-hung framing on the first floor. The main stack has a coursed sandstone base, with brick above and a brick chimney shaft, and the roof is covered with peg tiles.

The house has an L-shaped plan, with the main block facing north and consisting of a three-room layout. The left (east) end room is set back from the main front, while the main parlour on the right end has a projecting rear lateral stack. The front entrance is located between the centre and right rooms, likely accessed through a 20th-century porch that features a plank door under a half-hipped roof. The left end bay is recessed from the main front. The framing is exposed at the first floor level, displaying four uneven bays overall, with relatively slender timbers and straight tension braces, which appear to be from the 18th century. The roof is half-hipped at both ends and includes two gabled dormer windows, probably from the 19th century.

The interior was not available for inspection during the survey, but a previous description from 1987 noted 17th-century features. The main fireplace is made of sandstone and has a chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel, along with a spice cupboard. The rooms contain chamfered and scroll-stopped axial beams, and there were reports of 17th-century jowled wall posts, although the roof construction was not mentioned. Some 17th-century plank doors are present, and a brick-lined well from the 18th century is now part of the 20th-century extension.