Southend Farmhouse

Southend Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 16th or 17th century and the 18th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with dressed quoins and features timber-framing with brick infill on a rubble plinth. The roof is made of concrete plain tiles and has a brick ridge stack. The building has a two-unit lobby-entry plan and is one storey plus attics.

To the left of the plank door is a two-light casement window with a three-light dormer above it. To the right, there is a small 18th-century timber-framed wing, part of which forms a porch. The rubble walls have offsets at various levels. On the rear wall, there is a rectangular projection for a bread oven and a single-row dovecote. The main roof is half-hipped, and the central stack contains three flues.

Inside, a winder stair rises from the lobby, and there are plank doors on the first floor. The massive central stack is flanked by two collar-trusses of the three-bay roof, which features two rows of wind-braces in the right bay and one in the left. The farmhouse was formerly a farm belonging to Queens College, Oxford.