Deneridge Farmhouse

Deneridge Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, with remodels in the late 16th century and again in the late 17th century. It is constructed of rubble and cob, partially rendered and colourwashed, with gabled roofs made of asbestos slate and asbestos sheeting. The chimney stacks have 20th-century brick shafts.

The building has a three-room and through-passage plan, with the lower end located to the right. Originally, the hall may have been open to the roof, but by the late 16th century, it was floored, and an axial stack was added at the higher end, leaving the inner room unheated. In the late 17th century, the roof was renewed, the kitchen was moved into the hall, the lower room became a byre, and the inner room was upgraded to a parlour with an added stack at the higher end. The through-passage was blocked, and a new doorway was created directly in front of the hall fireplace to form a lobby entry. There is a stair turret at the rear of the hall.

The exterior features two storeys and a window arrangement of 1:1:2:2, with 20th-century casements that are two and three lights wide. The second bay from the left has a narrow gabled porch with a 20th-century outer door and sidelights, while the inner doorway is very broad, set in a moulded wooden frame with a four-centred arch head, likely reused from the original through-passage. The stair turret has two wood-mullioned windows at the rear of the hall.

Inside, there is a plank and muntin screen on the lower side of the through-passage, though much of it is obscured by 20th-century partitioning. The kitchen fireplace is blocked with a wooden bressumer. The hall features a chamfered axial ceiling beam and a fireplace with a moulded wood bressumer and a four-centred arch head, supported by rubble jambs. The parlour has 17th-century moulded plaster cornicing. A winder staircase leads to the turret, with wooden threads over cob and a turned newel with a finial. The roof was renewed in the 17th century and features straight principals.