Kennel Farmhouse and attached outbuilding

Kennel Farmhouse and the attached outbuilding, possibly a former detached kitchen, date back to the 16th century and were significantly altered in the 19th century. The building is constructed of rubble with a rendered entrance front and features a pantile roof. It has a three-room cross-passage plan, with the original staircase replaced by a 19th-century wooden staircase. At the back, there is a formerly detached gabled building made from the same materials and with a similar roof pitch, now connected to the main block by outshuts that have corrugated iron roofing.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has four first-floor windows. The windows include various two-light and three-light wooden casements with horizontal bars. The left-hand bay features taller casements with transoms, and there is a three-light window with a transom to the right of the door. A 19th-century plank and fillet door is located in the second bay, while the end window on the ground floor right is in a former wide opening that has been bricked up to sill level. There are external end stacks, with the right stack raised in brick and a small brick ridge stack to the right of the door. The left return has a tall single-light casement on the first floor and a blocked opening of similar size below it, to the right of a very large external stack; to its left is a three-light casement on the ground floor. Some remnants of early rendering and colourwash are visible on the stack.

The rear of the building has an attached outshut that conceals much of the ground floor. The first floor features three small two-light casements and an eaves stack in brick. The right gable has a large raking buttress that is not bonded in. Behind the main block, there is a rendered and pantiled structure with a door facing north.

The interior is not accessible, but the center room contains a compartmental ceiling with deeply-chamfered beams that likely date from the 16th century, while the right-hand room has similar transverse beams. There are some 19th-century shutters, but the roof structure has not been seen.

This substantial farm building has thick walls approximately 600mm in thickness and is located almost directly underneath a flyover section of the M5 motorway, surrounded by dense undergrowth and in a state of dereliction as of October 1988.