Palmer'S Farmhouse With Attached Barn To Rear

Palmer's Farmhouse with an attached barn to the rear is a late 15th or early 16th century building, with later alterations and extensions. The farmhouse is constructed of cob with a stone plinth, with plastered and roughcast walls. It has a gabled-end shingle roof, while the attached barn has a hipped corrugated-iron roof. Originally designed with a three-room plan, a through passage, and a rear parlour wing, the building's layout reveals earlier features. The survival of two jointed crucks within the rear barn, one possibly smoke-blackened, suggests that the parlour wing was once more extensive. A truncated jointed cruck in a lower-end extension, now used as a garage and storage area, indicates that this section may have originally been a barn or shippon. An axial stack with a brick shaft serves the hall, while a stack made entirely of ashlar heats the parlour.

The front of the farmhouse has a four-window range. The upper floor features two 2-light and two 3-light timber and metal casement windows, while the ground floor has two 3-light casement windows and a recessed planked door leading to the passage. A lower-end extension, with a lower roof ridge, incorporates a garage and pedestrian door, above which is a 2-light window. The left-hand side of the building has a 3-light window above an 8-light window. Contemporary additions to the rear obscure a former 3-light timber casement window with a chamfered surround and mullions in the lower-end section. A stair turret is situated at the rear of the hall. The right-hand elevation of the parlour wing, facing the roadside, has a 4-light window on the upper floor, while the barn has two double wagon doors.

Inside the farmhouse, chamfered arched door surrounds are found at the rear passage doorway and the entrance from the passage into the hall. A winder staircase is located at the rear of the hall, and another is built into the thickness of the end stack wall, leading to the parlour wing. The hall and parlour have three axial beams with chamfered edges and hollow step stops. Fireplaces likely conceal earlier construction work. A plank and muntin screen separates the hall and parlour; it is simply chamfered on the hall side, with an ovolo-moulded edge on the parlour side. The bressumer above the screen is chamfered with run-out stops above each panel. A deep, chamfered axial beam is present in the wing. The roof features two jointed crucks, one cut off above the collar. The complete cruck has a pegged and morticed apex, trenched purlins, and cranked collars; it also shows signs of smoke blackening. Two jointed crucks are within the wing (roof space of the wing was not inspected), and two jointed crucks, one with only a single blade remaining, are visible in the rear barn.