Symonds Farmhouse

Symonds Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the mid to late 17th century. It features a timber-framed structure with square slight framing and diagonal braces, wattle and daub infill, and a thatched roof with brick stacks. The building has a three-unit lobby entry plan and is two stories high, with a three-window range of 20th-century casements, except for the three-light leaded casements on the first floor. There is a flat hood on carved brackets over a six-panelled door, both dating from around 1840. The roof is gabled and hipped to the right, with a 17th-century ridge and two 19th-century projecting end stacks, one of which has been partly demolished.

Inside, there is a chamfered and stopped beam to the left, a full set of chamfered and stopped beams and joists in the center, which also includes part of an early 19th-century architrave to the fireplace with an original chamfered bressumer. An early 19th-century cupboard is located next to the fireplace, along with an early 19th-century straight-flight staircase in its original position opposite the entry and adjacent to the stack. The interior also features a three-bay queen post truss with clasped purlins and windbraces, 18th and 19th-century plank doors, and elm floorboards.

To the rear right, there is an 18th-century wing with rendered walls and a thatched roof, which is one and a half stories high and has a two-window range, along with a full set of chamfered stopped beams and a two-bay post and pad truss. A late 20th-century two-story extension has been added to the rear, along with a porch on the right side wall.