Little Lypiatt Farmhouse

This is a 17th and early 18th century farmhouse, constructed from rubble stone with a stone tiled roof. It has a "L" shaped layout. The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic. The front, facing the garden, has a stack on the east end wall and another on the west wall. It has a four-window front, with two dormers above. The gable of one dormer bears a datestone inscribed "CC 1674", and below it is a three-light window with a cyma-mould and hoodmould. The first floor also features recessed cyma-moulded windows: a three-light window to the left, two two-light windows to the right, and a three-light window with a hoodmould and datestone "WC 1674" at landing level beneath the dormer. Three ground floor windows, each with two lights, are also recessed and chamfered, with hoodmoulds; these may be from an earlier part of the 17th century. A single light appears in the attic of the west end wall, alongside a first floor two-light, recessed cyma-moulded window. The rear wing has a ground floor three-light ovolo-moulded window with a hoodmould to the west, a north end stack, and an east front built in the earlier 18th century. This section is two storeys high and has a two-window range of 12-pane sash windows set in raised, moulded surrounds, with a moulded band and coved eaves cornice. A two-storey addition, built in the early 20th century, obscures one of the ground floor windows in the angle. An east end stable and loft range incorporates two upper 18th century flush cyma-moulded windows and three lower 19th or early 20th century sashes, one inserted into a previously blocked central opening. Two end wall stacks are on the rear slope. The farmhouse was held by the Lypiatt family from the early 14th century, subsequently passing to the Keynes family in the 15th century, to J. Thrift in 1603, W. Gibbons in the later 17th century, and to the Hulbert family, who held it from 1696 to the mid-19th century.