Town Farmhouse

Town Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with some alterations and renovations made in the 20th century. It is constructed of whitewashed rendered cob and stone rubble, featuring end stacks and a front lateral stack, topped with a tiled roof that was formerly thatched. The roof is half-hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end.

The building has a single-depth plan that is three rooms wide, with a former cross passage that contains a later stair to the right leading to the center. The kitchen is located at the lower right end and includes a curing chamber, while the hall and heated parlour are at the higher end. Timber-framed wall construction in the central section of the rear wall suggests that there was once a dairy or stair wing at the back, which no longer exists.

The exterior features two storeys and an asymmetrical five-window front, with a gabled porch to the right leading into the former passage. The windows are mostly 20th-century glazing and casement windows, likely from the 1960s, except for two more recent small pane timber casements.

Inside, there is a notable survival of 16th and 17th-century carpentry. The kitchen at the right end has a chamfered scroll-stopped cross beam and a large open fireplace with a timber lintel, a bread oven, and a projecting curing chamber. The hall features a chamfered stopped cross beam, although its fireplace and lateral stack have been reduced due to the insertion of a window. The inner room has a moulded cross beam and a good fireplace with moulded stopped ashlar jambs and a chamfered lintel. Former plank and muntin screens between the passage and kitchen, as well as between the inner room and hall, no longer exist, although fragments of one are said to survive above ceiling level.

The roof is constructed with side-pegged jointed cruck construction, featuring a 17th-century truss over the kitchen end, though the apex was not inspected during the survey in 1986.