Tuckett'S Farmhouse

Tuckett's Farmhouse is a farmhouse and adjoining house built in 1904 by William Curtis Green for P.D. Tuckett. It is constructed of rendered materials with a red tiled roof, gabled at the ends and featuring sprocketed eaves. There are rendered stacks, and some timber framing with weatherboard detailing. The building is in a Vernacular Revival style and situated above a group of traditional thatched farmbuildings and a thatched farm cottage.

The building has an irregular L-shaped plan, with a main family house facing south-east and a tenanted farmhouse in a crosswing to the right, with a single-story dairy wing attached to the farmhouse's rear. The family house has a front door on its front elevation, while the farmhouse has a front door on its right return (north-east elevation).

The main block is single-story with an attic, and has a two-story stair projection to the right. The asymmetrical front elevation features two bays for the crosswing. The main block is buttressed on the left, with a timber front door flanked by shallow buttress features, a four-light timber casement to the left of the door, and a gabled attic dormer. The two-story stair projection has an asymmetrical gable with a datestone (PDT AD 1904) supported by decorative corbels, and a ground-floor and first-floor two-light timber casement. The crosswing has a timber-framed gable with deep verges carried on angled timber brackets, and a four-light first-floor oriel. The right return (crosswing) features a shallow gable with a front verge that sweeps down almost to ground level, and a plank front door and two four-light casements. The single-story dairy wing has a lean-to and a lateral stack. The left return of the main block includes a ground-floor bay window with a lean-to roof.

The interior of the left end of the house is well-preserved, featuring a stone floor, an inglenook fireplace with a punch-dressed grey limestone chimneypiece, contemporary joinery and carpentry designed by Curtis Green, and contemporary kitchen fittings. The farmhouse also retains a Curtis Green stone chimneypiece.

This is an early example of Curtis Green's work, and it is an outstandingly intact Vernacular Revival house. It is notable as part of a remarkable group of Vernacular Revival and traditional 17th and 18th century thatched buildings at Tuckett’s Farm.