Central Farmhouse

Central Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It is possibly built by William de Colerne, who was the Abbot of Malmesbury from 1260 to 1296. The building was raised in height in the 16th century and has undergone later alterations and additions. It features rubble construction with pantiled and double Roman tiled roofs, including gable stacks. The left side of the building is at a higher elevation and has masonry toothings that project above the roof level on the right.

The farmhouse has a two-room, through-passage plan and stands two storeys high on the left and one storey on the right. The facade has a total of four windows, arranged as two sets of three-light casements with timber frames and lintels. The frames are moulded in the left block. There is a porch in the second bay from the left, which has a pitched roof with cusped bargeboards, a pointed entrance arch, and a studded plank door with strap hinges and glass insertion in a moulded frame. The right block features single and two-light casements, along with two 20th-century dormers above.

On the north elevation, there are two 20th-century windows at attic level and a two-light casement on the first floor. The south elevation has a two-light casement and a lean-to supported by two stone piers and one timber pier, topped with a double Roman tiled roof and a 20th-century door. The rear includes a 20th-century single-storey extension on the left, with a ground floor two-light casement featuring a timber lintel, a dormer above, and a plank door in a moulded frame with glass insertion in the second bay from the right. To the right, there is a three-light casement with a timber lintel on both the ground and first floors.

Inside, the walls appear to be built on a plinth of natural rock, which is at least nine inches thinner above the first floor level, suggesting that the building was originally a single storey. The north room contains a fireplace with a deep lintel that has stopped ends, a central ash pit, and a brick bread oven in the right reveal. The interior features chamfered and stopped beams. There are two roof trusses in each attic; the northern trusses have deep tie-beams with principal rafters mortised into them, which have since been sawn off and boxed in. The southern trusses are of smaller scantling. The interior layout indicates a hall and chamber arrangement that was originally open to the roof.