Langley Farmhouse

Langley Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, with a reroofing likely occurring in the early 18th century. The core of the building is probably rubble and cob, with a thatched roof featuring gable ends. A rear lean-to has a slate roof, while a more recent 20th-century addition has a flat, bitumenised roof. There are three chimney stacks; one with a tall rendered shaft and exposed front lateral chimneybreast, a 19th-century brick gable end stack to the right, and a further brick ridge stack to the left.

The original plan was of three rooms and a through passage, with a lower room to the left of the passage containing an axial stack backing onto the passage to heat it. To the right of the passage is the hall, heated by a front lateral stack with an exposed breast, and a large heated inner room to the extreme right with a gable-end stack. Two 20th-century staircases have been inserted; one rising out of the hall and the other out of the kitchen. The original 17th-century staircase is no longer in place. Upstairs, the house is divided into two halves by the kitchen chimney stack. A range of 19th-century lean-tos run along the rear of the ground floor, previously housing a dairy and buttery, and now converted into a bathroom, utility room, etc.

The exterior is two storeys high with a 4:1 window arrangement. The windows are largely 20th-century 2- and 3-light casements with small panes and glazing bars. A 20th-century reproduction door sits within a small gabled porch and opens into the through passage. The rear elevation includes the lean-to with small 19th-century casements, alongside a single-storey, flat-roofed 20th-century addition to the left.

Internally, much of the original joinery remains. The through passage has flanking solid partitions. The doorway into the kitchen has a simple, chamfered wooden frame. The kitchen fireplace features a chamfered bressumer with run-out stops, and two axial ceiling beams with chamfers and run-out stops, some of which are partially buried. The solid partitions flanking the through passage also have chamfered and run-out stopped head beams. The doorway from the through passage to the hall has a hollow-and-ogee surround with a square head, and the hall contains two axial, chamfered ceiling beams with buried stops. The hall fireplace has a chamfered bressumer with run-out stops, and the upper end of the hall has a fitted settle with a semi-circular head cream scalder set into the rear wall. The heated inner room has a fireplace with a simple, unchamfered wooden bressumer. On the first floor, the 19th-century arrangement of small rooms and a long rear corridor remains.

The roof is a five-bay, early 18th-century structure, with principals having lapped collars and diagonal ridges, two rows of thin trenched purlins, and thin lapped collars set high up. There is no evidence of earlier roof joinery.