Upper Prestwood Farmhouse

Upper Prestwood Farmhouse is probably an early 15th-century building. It is an early four-bay open hall house that later had a smoke bay inserted, followed by the addition of a chimney. The layout includes a two-bay hall with one service room to the west and a parlour to the east. The farmhouse is two storeys tall, with the ground floor built in brick. The first floor features a combination of posts and part timber-framing with red brick infill. The corner posts have jambs, and the roof is hipped with tiles and includes gablets. There are two casement windows and a gabled weather porch.

Inside, the farmhouse retains a crown post roof with smoke-blackened rafters. It has long passing braces and mortices for a spere, which were used to protect those in the hall from draughts. A service room opens off the cross passage behind the hearth, and the joists in this room are morticed for a stair ladder in one corner. The inglenook hearth still has its crane, and the back of the hearth is made of chalk blocks that were once part of the smoke bay hearth.