Yellingham Farmhouse

Yellingham Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid 16th century, with improvements made in the 17th century. It was reduced in size in the late 19th century and modernised around 1970 when a barn was converted for domestic use. The building features plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and an asbestos slate roof that was formerly thatched.

The farmhouse has a three-room plan and faces south. The large room on the right is the kitchen, which has an axial stack backing onto the centre room, a small unheated room with a stair turret projecting to the rear. The left room is the parlour, which has a gable-end stack. Around 1970, the partition between the parlour and the centre room was removed. A former dairy block, which has a one-room plan, projects to the rear of the parlour. The kitchen is a 20th-century conversion, while the other two rooms in the main block are the hall and inner room of the original 16th-century three-room-and-through-passage plan. The parlour/former hall stack once backed onto the passage, but the passage and service end were demolished in the 19th century. The hall was floored over, and the dairy block was added in the early to mid 17th century.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an irregular four-window front featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The front doorway is located at the left end and contains a 19th-century plank door behind a contemporary gabled porch with shaped bargeboards. The roof is gable-ended.

Inside, no carpentry detail is visible in the former inner room, and only the headbeam of an oak plank-and-muntin screen between the hall and inner room remains. The hall fireplace is blocked by a 19th-century grate. The hall and dairy crossbeams are stop-chamfered with run-out stops. The roof over this section is supported by side-pegged jointed cruck trusses, and while the roofspace is inaccessible, the trusses are reported to be in good condition.