Binscombe Farmhouse

Binscombe Farmhouse is a timber-frame farmhouse with brick and stone elements, dating back to the 16th century, with subsequent alterations in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The farmhouse is constructed with timber frame and brick infill on rubblestone and brick plinths, with red brick in Flemish bond and galleted rubblestone with red-brick dressings. The roof is covered in plain tiles.

The original core is a two-storey, two-bay range from the 16th century, with a bay added to the northeast end in the 17th century and a bay added to the southwest end in the early 18th century. This early 18th-century range faces southwest and is five bays wide, featuring a central gabled stair tower at the rear and a projecting one-storey, one-bay addition from the late 19th century on the right end.

The southwest (main) elevation of the 18th-century range is of brick in irregular Flemish bond. It has five 20th-century wooden cross windows under flat brick arches on each floor, a plat band, cyma-moulded eaves, and a hipped roof at the left end with a central ridge stack and one stack at the right end. The 19th-century extension on the right is also of brick in Flemish bond, featuring tripartite sash windows on each floor with segmental brick arches, keystones, and imposts, under a hipped roof.

The left return displays the return of the 18th-century range with a rubblestone plinth, 20th-century windows with flat brick arches on each floor, plat band, moulded eaves, and an eaves stack at the left corner. To the left is the earlier range, set back, with four bays. The two central bays represent the original 16th-century section, featuring timber frame construction with a sole plate, mid-rail, arch-braced wall posts to a wall plate, and small square panelling. The left bay has a ground floor replaced with 20th-century brick and six-pane windows. The right bay has a four-pane window inserted below the eaves. The added 17th-century bay has diagonal braces from lower to upper rails and a three-light, diamond-leaded first-floor window with a central casement. The 18th-century link-bay, of brick, has a three-light diamond-leaded window set below the mid-rail and stepped eaves.

At the rear, the gabled stair tower is of galleted rubblestone and features a four-light, diamond-leaded first-floor window. It has corbelling below a brick gable, which includes a tie-beam and a bricked-up opening with bird-holes. A two-light leaded first-floor window is situated in the left return. The internal structure was not accessible at the time of resurvey.