Reeds Farmhouse

Reeds Farmhouse is a farmhouse, possibly later divided, that likely dates from the early to mid 17th century, with internal alterations from the mid to late 19th century and further changes and additions in the late 20th century. The building is rendered over stone rubble on the ground floor and cob on the first floor, topped with a wheatstraw thatched roof. There is an old brick stack at the right end and a 20th-century brick stack at the left, which replaced an earlier stack.

The original plan features a three-room layout from the 17th century, with end stacks and an unheated central room. The entrances lead into the central room and the right-hand room, suggesting the house may have been divided at some point. There is probably a 18th or 19th-century outshut at the rear of the left-hand room, likely used as a dairy, and a 20th-century flat-roofed addition at the rear of the central room. The farmhouse has two storeys with one-storey additions at the back.

The exterior has an asymmetrical arrangement of windows, with four on the first floor and three on the ground floor, featuring late 20th-century two-light plastic casements in the original openings. The doorways are off-centre to the left and right, positioned between the windows, and have late 20th-century doors. Inside, the left-hand ground-floor room includes a 17th-century open stone fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel, although the opening has been reduced in width. There is also a square recess in the wall to the left with shelves, and a 17th-century chamfered beam with broach stops that has been reused as a lintel above, possibly inserted in the 19th century to create a larger opening for a shop window, which has since been reduced. The first floor and roof space have not been inspected.