Old Farmhouse

This is a late 15th-century gatehouse range with lodging, later remodelled as a farmhouse and now used for storage. It was significantly altered in the mid-16th century, embellished in the early/mid-17th century, and extended to the northwest around 1830. The building is constructed of stone, with a tiled roof to the southwest side and corrugated iron to the northeast. It has rebuilt brick stacks. The original structure was a single-depth range, approximately seven windows wide, although some windows are now blocked. Two original 15th-century windows remain, featuring trefoil stone tracery, mullions, and hoodmoulds. Other windows have 16th-century frames, with some replacements from the 19th century.

The original range included a central thoroughway, with 15th-century arched doorways that were blocked during the 17th century. A Tudor-arched doorway was added to one side of the blocked thoroughway, and above this is a balcony supported by four large corbel brackets, with scroll ornament carved on their outer faces. Several later, plain square-headed doorways are likely from the 19th century. Three ridge stacks are present, one projecting from the first floor.

The interior reveals evidence of an original high-status lodging on the first floor. The southeastern room was originally heated by a plain fireplace set within the gable wall, with a projecting stack carried on a corbel. This room was open to the roof, and the central truss was arch-braced to the collar, with stub ties from the braces to the wall plates; the braces and collar are now missing. This represents a late development from base cruck forms, thought to be of 15th-century date. A blocked doorway in the southwest wall likely led to a stair or link to another building, originally constructed from timber and not bonded into the main building. This was replaced in the 16th century by a masonry block, of which the lower portion survives under a modern roof. A neighbouring chamber features close-studded partitions and collar beam trusses with V-struts. It includes a square-headed fireplace with ogee, quarter-circle, and ovolo mouldings, and swept stops, indicative of the later 15th century. A quatrefoil frieze from a larger, contemporary fireplace is built into a modern outbuilding. The interior of the gatehouse to the northwest of the passage was substantially reconstructed around 1630–40, with the insertion of a masonry cross wall and diagonal chimney breast. The ceilings of the first-floor chambers also date to this period, along with reused 16th-century windows inserted into the southeast gable, and a three-light oak ovolo-moulded window in the northwest gable. The upper portion of the southwest wall was rebuilt in the later 18th century, and certainly before the house's extension.

This is an important building with features from several periods, representing a survivor of High Meadow, a significant 15th-century estate. It was retained through the construction of a new High Meadow around 1640 and again when that was demolished in 1805.