Nutt'S Farmhouse With Former Barn (Now A Dwelling) To Rear

Nutt’s Farmhouse, originally a farmhouse, dates to the early 16th century and is accompanied by a former barn (now a dwelling) at the rear, likely built in the 17th or early 18th century. The house is constructed of roughcast cob on stone footings, with a gabled-end thatched roof. The barn has brick patching and a gabled-end corrugated iron roof.

Originally a three-room farmhouse with a through-passage and open hall, the house was extended in the 17th century, potentially at this time the hall was floored and a main stack inserted. It is now two storeys high. The front elevation has a three-window range; the first floor has two- and three-light casement windows, possibly 18th century in origin, characterized by large L-hinges. Similar casements are found on the ground floor, with a modern window in the inner room. A bake oven projection is visible with a small window to the right. The rear has two half dormers and a curved stair turret behind the hall stack. There are three rear doors, one directly opposite the front entrance to the passage, along with a lean-to porch and two small casement windows.

Inside, a plank and muntin screen remains to the left of the passage, featuring carpenter’s mitres, chamfered and stopped on the passage side. Fragments of a higher-end passage screen are found between the axial stack and rear wall. The hall has deeply chamfered, unstopped cross ceiling beams. The hall fireplace has a massive chamfered lintel. A reinforced bressumer, with mortices for a now missing screen, is situated between the hall and the inner room. The roof structure includes two jointed crucks, one over the lower passage screen and the other over the hall, likely delineating the original division between hall and inner room prior to the 17th-century extension. The hall cruck shows soot only to its upper end, suggesting the inner room was always floored. Blackened rafters, battening, and thatch remain above the hall. The service end extension retains three 17th-century jointed crucks, each marked with carpenter's assembly marks. The barn, originally a threshing barn, has retained its original roof construction with four roughly hewn jointed crucks, pegged and halved. The site still features medieval tenement boundaries at the rear.