Countess Farmhouse And Front Garden Walls

Countess Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-17th century, with an extension added in the late 18th century. It features mixed English bond brickwork and tiled roofs, standing two storeys high with a cellar and four structural bays. The building consists of two parallel blocks, with the rear block being older and partly refaced. The main elevation, from around 1800, has three bays and includes a central six-panelled door with a fanlight, set within a 19th-century trellis porch. The ground floor has tripartite 12-pane sash windows with gauged brick lintels featuring keystones and cambered soffits, while the first floor has nine-pane sashes. The eaves are brick dentilled, and there are two brick stacks on the rear wall, now serving as a valley gutter. The earlier rear block exhibits irregular fenestration and large gable stacks. A 19th-century dairy has been added to the south end, which has a hipped roof. Inside the earlier block, there are deep chamfered spine beams and an 18th-century eared fire surround in the north end room. The roof features two tiers of clasped purlins with cambered collars. The front block contains early 19th-century fireplaces. The front elevation is enclosed by curved cob walls approximately 2.8 meters high, which extend to enclose the front garden and meet a stable-barn block to the south at a pedestrian gate.