Velhurst Farm House

Velhurst Farm House is a possible hall house dating from the early 16th century. It has undergone several extensions, including those in the later 16th century, the 18th century, the 19th century, and the 1950s. The front of the house is timber framed and clad in brick from different periods, with brown brick extensions to the left and rendered extensions to the right. The roof is covered in plain tiles, with a hip over the centre and a gablet to the front of the cross wing. Originally a three-bay house, the left bay has now been demolished and replaced with a two-bay cross wing to the right, which is largely contained within 19th-century extensions. The house has two storeys, featuring a tall, massive, inserted stack to the left of centre, as well as further stacks to the front right, left end, and rear. The front has two first-floor windows, two casement windows on the ground floor under wooden lintels, one first-floor window in the cross wing, and one larger leaded casement window on the ground floor. A projecting single-storey porch with a hipped hood that continues the roofline, supported on brackets, shelters the front door. A pentice catslide and a flat dormer are also present at the front right. The gable end of the left-hand extensions is set back. The rear of the house features two half-hipped wings and a central, polygonal glazed extension, alongside a single-storey wing set at right angles. Inside, substantial framing remains exposed, with lamb's tongue stop chamfers to the ground floor spine beam. A deep fireplace is present, and there is evidence of a jetty on the cross wing. The first floor shows close stud framing over old floorboards, as well as jowled posts and windbracing in the roof of the cross wing.