Eastlands Farm

Eastlands Farm is a house, originally built around 1374 as a four-bay open hall house with a two-bay hall. It was converted into a barn around 1585 and extended westward in the 17th century, with an 18th-century lean-to added to the east. The building is timber-framed, with weatherboarding on most sides, though the south-east side is now clad in corrugated iron. It has a steeply pitched roof with a gablet (formerly a smoke hole) to the east and a half-hip to the west. A central cart entrance features double doors. The top of the wall plate above the north cart doors shows triangular mullion holes from the original hall window. Framing is visible on the north side, including a midrail and arched braces. The 18th-century lean-to to the east is also timber-framed and covered in corrugated iron, with a 20th-century brick east wall.

Inside, jowled upright posts, a midrail, and most curved tension braces remain. The eastern bay retains a triangular mullioned window to the north and holes to the south. The east end has passing braces and ground floor triangular mullion holes. Further mullion holes are visible in the western bay of the hall house. The roof features three crownposts of square section; the central one, originally in the open hall, has four headbraces to the collar beam, while the others have two head braces, and the easternmost crownpost retains one of its original pair of downbraces. Original rafters remain in the three easternmost bays, with two remaining in the westernmost bay, many of which are soot-stained. The 17th-century western bay has angled queen struts and through purlins. The open truss of the former open hall incorporates arch braces rising to the tie, a moulded fillet on the underside of the tie, and a moulded ‘pilaster’ down the front. The original floors in the end bays of the hall house are no longer present. The east end has six 19th-century grain bins, fitted with reused late 18th-century six-panelled doors. A 20th-century floor has been inserted at the west end.