Home Farmhouse

The Home Farmhouse, located in Farringdon, is a farmhouse dating back to the late 17th and early 18th centuries, with probable earlier origins, and extensively refurbished in the late 19th century. It was once the home farm to Farringdon House. The farmhouse is constructed of plastered brick, with some exposed English bond brick on low footings of red conglomerate stone, along with later 19th-century brickwork. It features late 17th and early 18th century brick stacks, their shafts plastered and extended with 19th-century brick, and a slate roof with 19th-century crested ridge tiles.

The house has an L-shape, with the main block facing south-west, and appears to have originated as a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the service end room on the north-western side. The inner and service end rooms each have an end stack, the former projecting, and the hall has a rear lateral stack. A late 19th-century two-story porch now fronts the main entrance. Connecting to the farm buildings is a late 17th and early 18th century service block at right angles to the rear of the inner room. The main block is two stories high with attics; the front has a regular 1:1:2 window arrangement, with a small extra ground floor window containing diamond panes of leaded glass. All windows have segmental arches above and are 20th-century replacement casements with glazing bars. Gabled half-dormer windows light the attics. The 20th-century front door is set within a Jacobean-style porch with ornate timber posts resting on a brick plinth, with chamfered edges, moulded bases, and fluted caps. A brick-nogged timber-framed room sits above the porch, featuring a canted bay window with its own slate roof. The porch roof eaves project forward, supported by an open truss with ornate diagonal bracing. The main roof is gable-ended. The front of the house is plastered, though a plat band at first floor level indicates the underlying late 17th-century structure. The south-eastern side of the house is exposed brick, again with a first-floor plat band. The gable end of the main block is blind, with the 19th-century brick contrasting with the earlier, more varied brickwork below. A simpler version of the front porch fronts the door to the rear block, along with casement windows with glazing bars on each floor.

The interior was largely rebuilt in the 19th century and refurbished again around 1950. While the original room layout seems to remain, original carpentry is not exposed, and the joinery is 20th century. The roof was not inspected. The property was formerly known as Hoods Farmhouse.