Cyder Press Farmhouse

Cyder Press Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, now a house, dating back to the 16th century, with significant alterations in the late 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed, with rendered infill or brick nogging, a stone plinth, roughly-squared blue lias stone, painted brickwork, and a tiled roof. The main block consists of three and a half bays, with a single room wing forming an ‘L’ shape, both being one and a half storeys high. There is a single-storey lean-to against the end of the wing.

The house faces the road with its left return showing timber framing three panels high to the eaves, featuring angle braces to the wall plate, except for half a bay. The ground floor is stone, with two-panel framing above. A paired French door, a boarded door, and a single-storey, open porch are present, along with vertical boarding to the sides and gable. A two-light casement window is also visible, as is a blocked window above. A gabled dormer features a two-light casement above, while brick chimneys rise from the ridge over the third bay. The roof is hipped towards the road. The front of the house has stone on the ground floor alongside two-light casement windows. Above, there is timber framing two panels high, with a two-light and a blocked window towards the end of the main block, and a hipped roof with a chimney near the eaves. To the right, the eaves are slightly lower, with a continuous centre rail. Ends of two floor beams project, and the right end is painted brickwork. A chimney rises from the gable behind the ridge. On the right, the gable end of the lean-to is of stone, with a vertical joint and two small, blocked openings on the ground level, some with herringbone masonry higher up.

Inside, the ground floor of the main wing's bay nearest the road contains a hall with a stone-paved floor and a wide fireplace with stone jambs, a timber lintel and ovens behind. Six-panel doors are present, and a wide-chamfered ceiling beam runs along the axis of the house, with matching applied beams to the outer walls to accommodate joist ends. A similar fireplace and beam are in the next room, alongside a three-board door with moulded edges. The upper floor has a truss between the end rooms, with the principal rafter tenoned to the top of the wall post, and the collar set higher to provide headroom. A brick-paved room is situated over the ovens. An upper cruck truss is located in the wing, featuring one wallplate and a reused 17th-century main post with a jowelled head. The roof is said to have smoke blackened over the hall.

The building is thought to be a 16th-century house, originally two bays, with one bay open to the roof. In the 17th century, a second floor was added to one bay, and a fireplace added to another. The wing dates to the 18th century, with a lean-to added in the mid-19th century. The suggestion that it is Saxon is incorrect. The farmhouse forms a group with Daniel's Orchard and is noted in historical records.