Longstreet House

Longstreet House is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century with significant alterations in the early 19th century. The exterior is lined with stucco over flint and limestone, with roughcast to the rear. Originally a three-cell cross-passage house, it has two storeys and attics, with five bays. A central two-storey porch features a 16th-century stone doorcase, originally capped with egg-and-dart pilasters and a guilloche frieze. Above the doorcase is an early 19th-century pointed sash window with intersecting glazing bars. The porch’s gable has late 19th-century openwork bargeboards. Shallow, wide, two-storey canted bays, dating to the early 19th century, flank the porch, with continuous wooden fascias on the ground floor. The house was extended to the right by one bay in the early 19th century, slightly recessed, and the left gable was rebuilt further out with a stone ashlar offset sill. A rear wing, now a garage with single-storey extensions, incorporates two upper-floor windows with three lights and ovolo-moulded frames. Inside, the porch leads to a stair hall containing a dog-leg staircase and some panelling. The house was historically the residence of the Poore family across several generations.