Baileys Farmhouse

Baileys Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with some modernizations from the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed, with the ground floor underbuilt in Flemish bond red brick, while part of the front is plastered. The upper framing is hung with peg-tile, and it features brick stacks and chimneyshafts, topped with a peg-tile roof.

The house faces southwest and has a layout that is two rooms wide and two rooms deep. The front rooms are larger and heated; the right room, originally the kitchen, has a rear lateral stack that backs onto an unheated former service room. The left room, initially an unheated service room, has been upgraded to a parlour, likely when the service block was added behind the kitchen stack in the late 18th or 19th century. Another service room, now the kitchen, was added later behind the parlour.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics in the roofspace above the front rooms and a cellar beneath the front parlour. The exterior features a slightly asymmetrical two-window front with 20th-century casements that have glazing bars. A central doorway is located behind a 20th-century gabled porch, which contains a 20th-century panelled door. The main roof is half-hipped to the right and gable-ended to the left.

Inside, the front two-room section showcases plain late 17th-century to early 18th-century carpentry. The wall framing consists of relatively slight scantling with straight tension braces. Both rooms on the ground and first floors have chamfered axial beams, with run-out stops on the ground floor and scroll stops on the first. The roof structure is mostly concealed by plaster. The former kitchen fireplace is large, made of brick with a plain oak lintel, and contains some blocked openings, likely for an oven, along with a good wrought iron swivelling pot hanger.