Nadder Farm

Nadder Farm is a house dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with later 20th-century renovations. The walls are whitewashed cob, with a slate roof gabled at the ends, and brick end stacks; the right-hand stack has two brick chimney shafts dating to the late 17th or early 18th century. The house originally had a two-room and through-passage plan, with two rooms heated from gable-end stacks, one on either side of a central passage, where a staircase was inserted in the late 19th century. The left-hand room was likely a hall or parlour, and the right-hand room a kitchen, although a screen of oak planks and muntins was removed in the 20th century. A cider barn adjoining the lower (left-hand) end of the house has been converted into living accommodation in the 20th century.

The front has an irregular three-window arrangement. The front door is centrally positioned and has a wide panelled design within an old doorframe with timber spandrels. The windows are mostly late 20th-century small-pane timber casements, except for a late 17th or early 18th century three-light timber mullioned window on the ground floor to the right; the mullions are flush to the exterior and bead-moulded to the interior.

The left-hand room of the main range has a large fireplace in the angle of the front and side walls, featuring a chamfered cambered lintel, a jamb made of one brick and one stone rubble, and the remains of a bread oven. This room contains a massive chamfered cross beam, along with some replacement timbers from the late 20th century. The right-hand room's fireplace has jambs of roughly-chamfered ashlar and a chamfered timber lintel; a roughly-chamfered cross beam may have originally been plastered over. The right-hand first-floor room has a late 17th-century brick fireplace with chamfered stopped brick jambs and a narrow chamfered lintel with small step stops. The roof space was not inspected, but the principal rafters appear to be straight and have been given additional support.

The building is considered a particularly interesting example of a late 17th or early 18th century two-room plan house, notable for its unusually early brickwork for a farmhouse in the region.