Annings

Annings is a house with origins dating back to the 17th century or possibly earlier. It was refurbished into its current form in the 18th century and underwent modernizations around 1950 and 1970. The exterior features exposed local flint and stone rubble, with a wall top made of plastered 20th-century brick. The house has stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and a thatched roof.

Located at the crossroads in the center of the hamlet, the cottage faces northwest and has a two-room plan with a central through-passage that contains the main staircase. The left room was originally a kitchen, with its axial stack backing onto the passage, while the right room serves as a parlour and has a gable-end stack that was inserted around 1950. There are integral 18th-century outshots at the rear. The cottage likely represents an adaptation of an earlier house, possibly with the kitchen originally serving as a hall.

The exterior has an irregular two-window front featuring 1970s PVC casements designed to resemble leaded panes. The passage front doorway is roughly central, wide, and contains a 19th-century plank door. The roof is gable-ended, and at the rear, the thatch extends over the outshots.

Inside, the cottage was modernized around 1970, during which the crossbeam in the larger right room was replaced. The left room lacks a beam, but its fireplace has a chamfered oak lintel with stone-lined sides. The roof is supported by two A-frame trusses; one has a pegged and spiked lap-jointed collar and X apex, while the other is similar but constructed from timbers reused from a 17th-century side-pegged jointed cruck truss. Annings is part of a group of attractive listed buildings in the hamlet of Farway.