Shadwell

This is a former farmhouse, likely dating from the mid-17th century, with significant modernisation and enlargement in the mid-19th century and later 20th-century alterations. It is timber-framed, with the ground floor constructed with Flemish bond red brick featuring burnt headers and original sandstone footings visible on the north end. The timber frame is clad with tile, with original framing exposed on the north side and 19th-century framing to the porch. Brick stacks, one potentially with a sandstone base, and brick chimneyshafts are present, along with a peg-tile roof.

The house follows a three-room lobby entrance plan, facing west. An axial stack between the north end room and the central room serves back-to-back fireplaces. The central room was likely the original kitchen, with an unheated service room originally at the south end, later united. A parlour is located at the north end. A two-storey porch was added in the 19th century in front of the lobby entrance. Further 19th-century rear blocks extend from both ends of the main block, one containing a parlour and the other incorporating a kitchen and service areas. A single-storey service room projects from the 19th-century kitchen block.

The main block is two storeys with attics, while the service room is single-storey. The front elevation features a regular but asymmetrical three-bay arrangement, with 19th-century iron-framed casement windows – all except a four-light casement above the porch. These windows feature patterned glazing bars. A central dormer with a 19th-century framed gable is also present. A two-storey gabled porch, built in the 19th century, is located to the left of centre. The ground floor is brick, while the upper portion is attractively timber-framed and jettied out on shaped ends of the joists. The front door is a 20th-century Tudor-style panelled door. The main roof is gable-ended.

The south side features a 19th-century block constructed in a matching style, with similar iron-framed casement windows, including double French windows. The north-end of the main block displays exposed timber framing, brick-nogged at ground floor level, incorporating some 19th-century timbers for visual effect.

The interior has been modernised in the 19th and 20th centuries, but the original timber frame appears intact. The north end room contains a 20th-century tiled fireplace, however, the chamfered and scroll-stopped lintel remains visible. An axial beam here, including mortises along its soffit, is believed to be reused. The main room’s axial beam is chamfered with canted step stops, and a large early 18th-century style (but presumably 19th-century) chimneypiece stands behind the fireplace. Similar carpentry is found on the first floor. While most of the roof structure is concealed behind 19th and 20th-century plaster, the exposed end truss reveals clasped side purlins with queen struts.