Nobles

Nobles is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house, originally built in the early 17th century. It was later extended and given a new front in the 18th century, with further modifications and significant additions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The original part of the building is timber-framed with wattle and daub infill, while the front features a ground floor that is underbuilt in brick from two different periods and a first floor that is tile hung. To the right, there is an added outshut made of brick with glazed headers in Flemish bond on a rubble-stone plinth. On the left, there is an early 20th-century cross-wing built of brick in Flemish bond, also with a tile-hung first floor. All sections of the building have plain tile roofs.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a loft in the original two-bay section. The 18th-century outshut is on the right, while the early 20th-century cross-wing is on the left. There are additional late 19th and early 20th-century extensions at the rear that are not of special interest. The original section features late 19th and early 20th-century wood-mullioned casement windows on the ground floor, with configurations of one, four, and three lights, and two three-light windows above. There is a stack at the left end. The outshut has one timber-lintelled sash window and a hipped roof on the left. The cross-wing includes a canted bay window with sashes on the ground floor, a three-light casement window above, and a half-hipped gable, with a lateral stack on the left. The right return has an entrance in a 20th-century porch and a small-pane dormer window in the outshut.

Inside, the 17th-century structure is well-preserved, encased by later additions. The square-panelled timber frame is exposed, featuring heavily-jowelled posts, chamfered beams with step stops and run-out stops, and square-sectioned floor joists. The roof contains a central queen strut truss and queen-post trusses at the original end walls, with square-section morticed-and-tenoned rafters showing carpenters' marks that are out of sequence, along with wind braces. There is a large brick chimney that was originally external, with a timber bressumer over the ground-floor fireplace and a bread oven opening from the rear wall. On the first floor, there is an original central partition wall that divides the bays, and a reused old board door is located in the rear wall.