Camp Farm

Camp Farm is a farmhouse with attached barn, now converted to residential use. The building dates from the late 16th or early 17th century but has undergone substantial modification in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The structure comprises three main sections. The former barn and outbuilding section is built of coursed rubble with a concrete tile roof. The small farmhouse section features pebble-dash render over brickwork facing timber framework, with a plain tile roof. The early layout is no longer clearly legible, but appears to have originally contained a through passage with part of the parlour range (now demolished) at the left-hand (eastern) end, adjoining a large barn that is now completely modified and converted to dwelling. A small two-storey end section stands to the right, with external stone steps leading to a loft entry in the gable. The building sits high on a bank with part basement beneath the former barn unit, and is accessed on the upper side, away from the modern A4151 road.

The road-facing elevation shows the pebble-dashed left end with two 20th-century eaves dormers over 2 and 3-light casements. The rubble barn section features a 2-light hipped dormer over a 3-light casement, a small cellar opening with steel floor joists, a lofty 2-light stack, single light and 3-light dormer over a 3-light casement, a raking buttress, a 2-light window, and two flush roof lights—all of late 20th-century date. The left return has 2-light windows over 2-light 20th-century casements; the right return has a plank loft door at the head of stone steps. The entrance front shows the former barn section with various 20th-century casements, dormers and roof lights, including a recessed balcony and projecting flat-roofed section with porch. The rendered house unit to the right has a 2-light steel casement in brickwork, a plank door, and a 2-light over 2-light steel casement, with a small brick gable stack.

The interior contains two storeys at the west end with timber floor and roof probably of 18th-century date. The large central unit, formerly the barn, retains some roof principals but is otherwise of late 20th-century construction. The small pebble-dashed unit retains parts of two pairs of full crucks; the south wall is chiefly square panel framing faced externally with brick, and the north wall is similar with some close-spaced heavy studs. A series of deep chamfered transverse beams spans the ground floor ceiling. A large open fire with a chamfered wood bressumer stands at the barn end, likely the old service end of the house. A 19th or early 20th-century timber staircase is present; the original stair position is unknown, and the east gable wall has been completely rebuilt, suggesting the building originally extended further in that direction. Internal framed partitions and substantial remains of wattle and daub panelling survive, including one at upper floor with exposed woven wattle now without fill. Outer walls also show traces of wattle and daub.

Despite extensive modification, the building retains substantial remains of good quality early timber structure.