Home Farm

Home Farm is a farmhouse that dates back to the early 17th century, although it may have earlier origins. It has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The structure features rendered cob and rubble walls, with a gable-ended roof made of corrugated asbestos, while the attached barn has a corrugated iron roof. There is a brick stack at the left gable end and an axial stone stack that has a tapering cap, dripmoulds, and a dripcourse.

Originally, the farmhouse had a three-room-and-through-passage layout, with a hall stack backing onto the passage and a projecting hall bay. The lower room on the right side was rebuilt as a barn in the 19th century, likely following the lines of what had been there previously. At the higher end of the house, there are two small rooms—one in front and one behind—that are probably later subdivisions of the inner room. An early 20th-century lean-to was added at the rear of the hall and passage. In the mid-20th century, the house was completely re-roofed and effectively reduced to one storey, making the top floor inaccessible.

The exterior is single storey with an asymmetrical front that has two windows from the 20th century, featuring two- and three-light casements, with the right-hand window located in the projecting hall bay. The roof drops significantly over the right-hand half of the building, which includes the barn and passage that has a plank door. The barn has a doorway at its right end, along with an adjoining window and a first-floor loading hatch.

Inside, the hall fireplace opening is blocked. There are two chamfered ceiling beams, with a configuration of less substantial beams forming a square in front of the fireplace, which is said to have been used for hanging and smoking bacon. The roof trusses were replaced during the 20th-century re-roofing.