Hoe Farm House

Hoe Farm House is a house that dates back to the early 16th century, with extensions made in the 17th century and further enlargements by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1890. The building features a timber frame clad in sandstone rubble, with some areas of colourwashed brick infill on the exposed first floor frame to the right. The roofs are plain tiled, stepping down and half-hipped to the right. The house has two storeys and a tall basement plinth at the right end.

There are double, rebuilt diagonal stacks to the left on a crow-stepped plinth, along with two diagonal stacks straddling the ridge to the right of centre and two front stacks also to the right of centre, with rear stacks to the right. An attic is present in the gable end bay to the left. The windows include one leaded, 3-light window on each floor below, two 4-light windows on the first floor and one on the ground floor at the centre. There is also one 3-light window on the first floor and one 2-light ground floor window under a tiled offset and tile-hung gable to the right, along with one diamond-pane casement on each floor, including the basement to the right.

A panelled and part-glazed door is located to the right of centre, set between the stacks in a gabled brick porch with an elliptical arch at the front. To the right-hand return front, there is a timber-framed gallery that links to a coach-house type block designed by Lutyens, which features gabled dormers and leaded windows.

Inside, the ground floor left has a fine ceiling frame with chamfered joists, a moulded beam to the left, and some panelling. Above, there is a massive braced crown post on the first floor, with a cleverly fitted staircase designed by Lutyens that integrates around the old frame. The house was once owned by Winston Churchill, who is reputed to have started his painting there.