Pachesham Farmhouse

Pachesham Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the 17th century or earlier and was enlarged in the 18th and 20th centuries, with various alterations made over time. The building has a timber frame that has been covered in red brick, with additional red brick and tile hung at the first floor, topped by a red tile roof.

The farmhouse has a two-unit single-depth plan, with an 18th-century addition on the right-hand side, a lean-to on the left end, and an outshut at the rear. It is two storeys high with two levels and features two and one bays. The earlier section has a modern gabled porch at the junction with the lean-to on the left, and modern casement windows with two and three lights on each floor to the right. The roof is half-hipped at the left end, with coupled chimneys where it meets the addition on the right. This addition is two storeys high and one bay wide, with a modern three-light casement window on each floor. The rear of the building includes an added outshut under a catslide roof, which has two dormers.

Inside, visible timber-framing can be seen in the west end wall at the junction with the lean-to, and on the first floor in the rear wall, both ends, and the partition wall. There are angle-braces and windbraces in all four corners, and a chamfered lateral beam about two metres from the east end wall suggests there was once a smoke bay. On the ground floor, the second bay has a rebuilt inglenook with a chamfered bressummer, and there is a staircase located behind the chimney stack, which is approximately one metre in diameter. However, the lateral partition between the bays has been removed, and a vacant mortice in the post of the west end wall indicates that this end was previously longitudinally partitioned.