Tichborne'S Farm

Tichborne's Farm, now a house, incorporates elements from the 16th century, with significant extension and remodelling in the early to mid-19th century, likely around 1840 by John Titchborn. The construction is a mix of painted brickwork, rendered brick, plain tile roofing, brick stacks, and stone dressings around the windows in the rendered wing.

Originally, the farmhouse was an L-shaped plan with a through passage and service rooms to the north, with the original staircase position now not discernible. An addition was made in the early to mid-19th century, projecting from the left side and increasing ceiling heights, partly obscuring the earlier structure.

The front of the house, facing the entrance, is two stories high with a 1+3 window arrangement. The left wing features 2-light mullioned casements with Gothic heads and stopped drips. The older block has 2 and 3-light casements with horizontal bars in matching dressings, plus a glazed door to the left and a plank door under a 20th-century porch on the right. The return side, left of the wing, displays two 2-light over one 3-light Gothic windows. Set back is an external brick stack flanked by a late sash window. The garden front presents a 2:3:2:1:2-light wood casement arrangement at the eaves, above a 2:3:2:door:bay window. The wood casements continue throughout, with a pent roof covering a part-glazed door and a full-height door to Gothic heads on the canted bay window. The roof is half-hipped over a plain gable, with a lean-to extension; a large brick buttress is on the left end of the garden front, along with a ridge stack and a corner stack.

The interior has been significantly altered, but retains remnants of the earlier structure. There are lower sections of two pairs of fillistons, cut off at the upper ceiling level. A room to the right of the entrance on the ground floor displays 4 deep-chamfered beams, including those at wall positions, alongside remaining square panel wall framing and chamfered stopped joists, some of which have been replaced with 20th-century copies. An adjoining room features a heavy chamfered and stopped transverse beam. Several good 3-panel Gothic doors with H hinges are present. In the back left room, within the original section, are remnants of timber framing, likely concealed by later decorations. One beam near the probable through passage has mortices, possibly for an original screen. A 19th-century staircase has been installed. An early 18th-century wood fire surround with embellished pulvinated frieze remains in the front left room of the 19th-century rebuild. An upper room houses a good 18th-century over-door with high-quality enrichment resembling the fireplace below, along with 19th-century fluted pilasters and a good 2-panel fielded door. The roof space, containing fragments of earlier roofing material including cut-off ends of crucks and some purlins, was raised and restructured in the 19th and 20th centuries. The centre bay retains an enclosure of unknown purpose — an in-frame with wattle and daub panelling.