Collins Farmhouse Including Cart Shed Adjoining To South

Collins Farmhouse, including the adjoining cart shed to the south, is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-16th century, with significant improvements made in the late 16th and 17th centuries, along with some modernization in the 19th and 20th centuries. The late 19th-century cart shed features a red tile roof. The building is constructed from exposed local stone and flint rubble, with stone rubble and brick stacks topped with 20th-century brick, and an asbestos slate roof that was formerly thatch.

The farmhouse has a three-room and through-passage plan, situated on a gentle hillslope facing east-south-east. At the downhill right (north) end is the former service end cider house, which includes a 19th-century gable-end stack. Although an internal inspection was not possible during the survey, the presence of an early to mid-16th-century back doorway suggests that the original structure was likely an open hall house, heated by an open hearth fire. During the late 16th and 17th centuries, hall and inner room stacks were added, and the house was progressively floored over, with the former hall now serving as the kitchen. The house is currently two storeys high with secondary outshots at the rear.

The exterior features an irregular four-window front with 20th-century casements that include glazing bars. The passage front doorway, located to the right of centre, has a 20th-century plank door. To the left of this doorway is the projection of the oven housing from the former hall fireplace. The roof is gable-ended. The passage rear doorway retains an original doorframe with an oak shoulder-headed arch. Although the interior was not inspected, previous descriptions mention jointed cruck roof trusses, stop-chamfered beams, and many original fittings.