Freeman'S Farmhouse And Attached Garden Walls And Gatepiers

Freeman's Farmhouse, along with its attached garden walls and gatepiers, is a farmhouse with a core dating back to the 17th century, featuring alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed from rendered rubble with ashlar dressings and has stacks and a double Roman tile roof. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a six-window principal front that was refaced in the late 19th century. The windows feature 19th-century cross wooden mullions with small pane casements on the ground and first floors, and there are three gabled dormers in the attic. The central entrance boasts a late 19th-century Wren style doorcase with a broken pediment and a ball finial, leading to a 19th-century plank door. A string course runs along the first floor, and above it, the upper wall features pargetting in render with a central coat of arms and a coved cornice. The roof is double span with end stacks and one central ridge stack.

Inside, there are some 17th-century chamfered beams. The ground floor room on the left side to the north contains a chimneypiece and overmantel in carved wood, styled around 1740, likely added in the late 19th century. There is also an open well staircase with a moulded handrail and turned balusters. The garden walls to the north are made of squared and coursed rubble, standing 2.5 metres high on the sides and lower at the north boundary of the formal garden. The ashlar gatepiers feature one urn with a tapered cap finial on the left, while the other is dislodged, and there are further ball finials at the corners of the wall. The garden features a formal layout from the late 19th century.