Bradiford Farmhouse

Bradiford Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with possibly an earlier core, which was modernised and enlarged around 1840. It features plastered cob on exposed rubble footings, with stone rubble or cob stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and has a slate and corrugated asbestos roof. The house faces south and consists of two parallel ranges. The front range has a three-room layout with an entrance hall and stairs situated between the central and left (west) rooms. There are end stacks and a rear lateral stack serving the central room. The rear service block includes a large projecting rear lateral stack near the right (east) end. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a regular four-window front with 12-pane sashes, although the left ground floor window has been replaced by a horned 4-pane sash and the right ground floor window has been replaced by sliding PVC-framed French windows from around 1984. The symmetrical arrangement includes three windows to the left of a central doorway, which features a six-fielded pane door with a flat hood supported by shaped timber brackets, flanked by 20th-century buttresses. The front has a coved eaves cornice, while both roofs are gable-ended. The sides and rear have a less regular arrangement of 19th-century casements with glazing bars and 20th-century casements without.

Inside, access was limited during the survey, but it was noted that any early features are concealed by 19th and 20th-century plaster. However, the front block contains a late 17th-century straight flight staircase with a flat-moulded handrail, heavy turned balusters, and a closed string. All fireplaces are blocked, and beams are mostly hidden, except for one roughly-chamfered beam in the rear block. There is much 19th-century joinery detail, including fielded panel internal shutters for the front sashes. Although the roof was not inspected, it is said to have pegged A-frame trusses with a steep pitch that may have originally supported a thatched roof. The plan of the front block suggests a 16th or 17th-century three-room-and-through-passage layout. In the 19th century, Bradiford was part of the Radford Estate.