Denbow Farmhouse

Denbow Farmhouse is a house that was formerly the principal rooms of a farmhouse, dating from the late 17th century. It was divided off from the kitchen and former barn, now known as Denbow Thatch, around 1980. The building is constructed of locally-made brick in English bond, with brick stacks and chimney shafts, and features a slate roof.

The farmhouse has a two-room plan and faces southeast, attached to the right end of Denbow Thatch. Each room on both the ground and first floors is served by projecting rear lateral stacks with their original diagonal chimney shafts. The entrance hall and main stair are located between the two rooms. The house is two storeys high with attics in the roof space and a cellar.

The front of the house is asymmetrical with three windows and a plain plat band at first floor level. The windows are 19th-century replacement mullion-and-upper-transom casements with glazing bars, featuring three lights at the right end and two lights elsewhere. The ground floor windows and the doorway to the left of centre have segmental arches above them. The doorway contains a 19th-century six-panel door with an overlight that has glazing bars. There are two gabled dormer casements with glazing bars in the attic. The roof is hipped at both ends, and the front has an eaves cornice with regularly spaced plain brackets.

At the rear, there is an external cellar door and two blocked stair windows. The interior was modernised in the 19th century, but this appears to have been only superficial. The right room features late 17th-century bolection-moulded wainscotting, while the chimneypieces are from the 19th century. The original dogleg stair has a closed string, square-section newel posts, heavy turned balusters, and a moulded flat handrail. The roof has not been inspected but is believed to be original. Denbow Farmhouse is an attractive and seemingly little-modernised late 17th-century brick farmhouse.