Addislade

This is a farmhouse, dating to the late 16th century, with alterations and additions made in the 17th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone rubble, with a bitumenised scantle slate roof featuring gabled ends. The roof over the higher end and hall retains early crested ridge tiles. The original plan comprised three rooms and a through passage, with gable end stacks and an axial hall stack backing onto the passage. A newel staircase originally existed at the rear of the lower end of the hall, replaced around the 17th century by a gabled stair tower. A gable was added to the front of the higher end, and there is a gabled section to the through passage, alongside a 17th-century granary situated above a dairy wing projecting at the front of the lower end.

The building is two storeys high, with a four-window front. An early 17th-century gable is located on the left-hand side. A two-storeyed gabled porch is positioned to the right of centre, featuring a large round arch and an early 19th-century panelled inner door. The windows are mostly 19th-century three and four-light casements. A wing projects at the lower end to the right, with a half-hipped roof. External steps lead to a door in the gable end, which has pigeon holes above.

The left-hand return side reveals a 17th-century doorframe with a double ovolo moulding and a nail-studded door, featuring cover moulds and decorated wrought iron hinges. On the opposite, north side of the wing are two timber, ovolo-moulded windows, one being blocked. The kitchen stack at the lower end has a smoking chamber with a round, corbelled stone roof, complete with a stone shelf around the base.

Inside, the plank and mintum screen between the hall and inner room has been removed. The hall and inner room retain plain chamfered ceiling beams. Blocked fireplaces are present in the inner room and hall. A solid wall separates the through passage from the lower room (kitchen), which is at a lower level than the passage. A blocked fireplace is located in the lower end kitchen gable. The roof over the hall and higher end is entirely clear, with four trusses, possibly jointed cruck trusses featuring morticed apices and morticular threaded purlins, although the purlins are largely missing. The collars are thin and wavy, with lap-jointed dovetail construction. The roof of the lower end has principals mortised at the apices, with two tiers of threaded purlins, one of which appears to be smoke-blackened. The granary and dairy wing has fireplaces on both the ground and first floors, with ovolo-moulded timber lintels with bar stops. The roof has principals with morticed apices and threaded purlins, though the purlins are missing. This is a substantial and largely unaltered farmhouse.