Home Farm

This is a late 15th century three-bay hall house that was later floored, and has undergone 19th and 20th century alterations, including extensive restoration and extensions in the 1980s. The building is timber-framed with painted brick infill to the ground floor, and has a tiled roof. Windows and doors are timber.

The building runs north/south, with the front elevation facing west. It retains its original three-bay layout, with a substantial brick stack in the centre and the central bay opened up internally to the north bay. The roof is hipped.

The west-facing front elevation and the entire north elevation have painted brickwork in a Flemish bond pattern, likely a 19th-century alteration that incorporates an under-building of the timber frame. Ground floor windows are paired timber casements. The first floor to the west and the entire south elevation have a late 20th-century timber frame replacement, which replicates the original framing pattern and includes a blocked mullioned window, as recorded in earlier list descriptions. Corner posts on the south elevation feature a jowling detail. An open-fronted porch, likely dating from around 1900, shelters a two-panelled double door with an early 19th-century reeded architrave. A large, off-centre brick ridge stack is present on the roof. The original timber frame on the east elevation remains largely intact, though partially obscured by the 1980s extension.

Inside, the timber floor structure of the two northernmost bays is visible in the ground floor ceiling. This is now one large room, but the differing ceiling construction shows the original layout of a floored hall and the reorganization required when the central chimney was inserted. Two large hearths are open, revealing the brickwork of the stack and timber bressumers. The first and attic floors retain some original structural timbers, including wall plates, posts, and tie-beams. The attic level has a bedroom in the central bay, and the bays on either side are roof spaces, where the clasped purlin roof structure is visible. Within the north bay roof space, the bay partition is plastered with a coarse daub, while smoke-blackened timbers are visible in the south bay roof space, next to the brick stack (originally within the central open hall bay). Interior joinery and wall finishes are generally of 20th-century date.

An extension built in the 1980s, adjoining the south bay to the rear, does not form part of the listed building.