Carpenter'S Farmhouse

Carpenter's Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It has origins dating back to the 17th century and was refronted and extended to the right in the early 19th century, with additional alterations made later. The building is constructed of rubble and has a rendered finish, topped with a triple roll tiled roof that features a stone ridge stack and a gable stack on the right. The right verge is raised and coped, possibly indicating it was once thatched. The roofs of the rear outhouses are made of pantiles and double Roman tiles.

The farmhouse has a through passage plan, which likely originally included only two rooms to the left with a ridge stack at what was the former gable end. The roof ridge is higher to the right of the stack. The building is two storeys high and has four windows, with two-light casements located under the eaves. On the ground floor, there are six two-light casements with wooden lintels and keys, along with a central glazed porch from the early 20th century. The inner door is plain with a glazed panel, and there are lean-tos on both the left and right sides, with a four-pane light on the left.

The left return features a single light in the lean-to, while the right return has a loading door in the lean-to and a door with strap hinges leading to the rear. The rear of the farmhouse includes a two-light casement on the first floor to the right, and a single-storey early 20th-century lean-to with a glazed door that connects the house to a previously separate single-storey outbuilding, which may have been a bakehouse. This outbuilding has a stack and oven on the side and a pantiled roof. To the left of the bakehouse is a taller single-storey addition from the 19th century, which has two stable doors and a two-light casement, all beneath a double Roman tiled roof. There is also a small open-fronted barn attached to the rear, featuring a four-bay roof supported by principal rafters, one row of purlins, and a collar.

Inside, the room to the left has a rounded beam with hooks, while the central room features a chamfered beam with a step and run-out stops, along with a heavy uneven lintel over the fireplace that has a later 19th-century brick oven built into the left side. There is a 20th-century replacement winder stair at the rear, and the wall to the passage may have been a former external wall. The rooms to the right of the passage have a higher ceiling level on both the ground and first floors. The roof was not accessible during the survey in March 1985, but it is likely a 19th-century rebuild.