Townsend Farm House

Townsend Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, with a parlour wing that may be from the 17th century or earlier. The building is constructed of roughcast stone rubble and features a thatched roof with both hipped and gabled ends. It stands two storeys high and has a three-window range. The ground and first floor windows on the left side are four-light ovolo moulded stone mullion windows, while the remaining windows are later two and three-light casements with glazing bars. To the right of the centre is a heavy wooden doorframe with a cambered head and a plank door. There is a stone porch with a roughly moulded four-centred arch and a thatched roof. The house has a stone rubble ridge stack off centre and a brick stack at the north end. The rear parlour wing has a gable-ended thatched roof and features a rear porch leading to a cross passage, which is made of stone with a timber-framed storey above, and the thatch is swept over the roof.

Inside, the roof is smoke-blacked, supported by jointed cruck trusses with arched braces to the collars, and the cruck joints are face-pegged. The through passage includes a section of plank and muntin screen with a depressed arch doorway leading to the hall. There is an inserted floor in the former open hall, which has intersecting deeply chamfered ceiling beams and a fireplace with a chamfered wooden bressumer. The first floor features Tudor-arched doorways. The rear parlour wing may date back to the 16th century as it is said to have a smoke-blackened roof.