Brinsham Farmhouse, Including Attached Barn, Stables, Sheltershed And Cartshed

Brinsham Farmhouse is a vernacular farmhouse dating from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with alterations and extensions added in the 19th century. Attached farm buildings, including a barn, sheltershed, stables, and cart shed, were constructed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The farmhouse is built of rendered rubble with a double Roman tiled roof, featuring coped raised verges. The layout is an asymmetrical L-shape. The south elevation incorporates a gabled section to the left, with a 4-light casement window on the ground floor, a 3-light cross window on the first floor, and a single light in the attic, all featuring hollow-chamfered mullions and surrounds. A projecting gabled porch has a 3-light casement window on the first floor and a doorway with an ogee/hollow moulded surround and a depressed arch head, leading to a plank door with a chamfered surround and a 4-centred head. A 19th-century wing is set back to the right of the south elevation, with segmental-headed casement windows and a plank door. A single-storey service wing extends to a rubble kitchen and bakehouse, which has a brick stack on its west gable. A 2-storey stair turret with a hipped stone slate roof projects from the west elevation, and a 2-storey and attic north wing is also present, incorporating a 3-light cross window on the first floor. The ground floor southwest room has decorative overmantels and a framed ceiling with ogee/ovolo moulded beams. The northwest room features a framed ceiling with beams which have a double ovolo moulding and converging stops. The attached farm buildings form three sides of a yard, all constructed of rubble with double Roman tiled roofs. The barn likely comprises five bays and has a gabled porch. A 3-bay stable projects north from the barn and has a tie and collar beam roof. Adjacent to the stable is a 6-bay sheltershed, and at its east end, a cartshed with a hipped roof.