42-52

This is a 17th-century farmhouse that was altered and subsequently converted into six flats around 1975. It is constructed of rubble stone with concrete plain tile roofs. The main range is two storeys and has an attic, arranged in an ‘L’ shape. It features moulded coping to the gables, an external stack on the north end, and a stack on the south end with paired diagonal shafts. 20th-century dormers have been added. The west front, likely altered in the early 19th century, has a three-window facade with long, 12-pane sash windows. A continuous dripcourse runs above the ground floor, stepping over the windows and central doorway. There is an additional door to the left of centre, and a 20th-century circular opening has been inserted to the right. A single-storey wash-house projects at the left end. At the rear of the main range, a fine moulded doorcase with a basket-arched head and carved spandrels is situated to the right (with a 20th-century door). Adjoining this is a blocked window with a hoodmould on each floor, followed by two ground-floor recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows with a continuous hood. Traces of blocked windows are visible above. A rear wing to the south has a 20th-century dormer and a two-window range of early 18th-century recessed cyma-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds; two 2-light windows are above, and a 3-light and a 2-light window are below. The east gable has similar 2-light windows and hoodmoulds to the attic, alongside two blocked stair lights at the upper level, a ground-floor 2-light ovolo-moulded window with a hood. Attached to the north end is a one-and-a-half-storey ‘L’ shaped range, partly 17th-century and altered in the 19th century. The north end chimney gable and the west end gable have been rebuilt in the 19th century using red brick. The east wall has two 2-light recessed cyma-moulded windows to the ground floor and a single-light window with a hood to the gable. Flats 42-48 occupy the main house, while flats 50-52 are within the north end range. The property is locally known as “Cromwell’s Barracks” due to a tradition that Cromwell’s troops were housed here while he was at Jaggards.