Little Applewood Farm

Little Applewood Farm is a house originating in the 17th century with later extensions, constructed of timber frame and brick with thatched and tiled roofs and brick chimneystacks.

The building stands set back to the north of Harley Lane and is orientated roughly east-west. The original 17th-century range comprises a two-cell plan. A 19th-century extension extends to the east, to which a porch and conservatory (excluded from the listing) have subsequently been added.

The main range presents as a single storey with an attic beneath a pitched thatched roof, with a single-storey extension to the east. The principal elevation faces south. The timber framing has been largely rebuilt in brick on the ground floor. A modern front door is positioned towards the left-hand side of the elevation. Two window openings feature cambered brick heads, one with a timber lintel and another with an obscured lintel. Windows are mostly double-glazed casements, though some retain single-glazed casements with diamond leaded glass. Above, two three-light casements sit within the attic, positioned beneath a continuous timber-framed eyebrow dormer.

To the rear, the thatch roof terminates at impost level with a number of irregular openings, including patio doors adapted from window openings. An outshut extends from the west end, with the thatched roof continuing to the mid-rail as a catslide. The west gable end carries an external brick chimneystack with tiled offsets. An internal brick stack stands at the east end.

The eastern extension, likely added in the mid-19th century, is a single-storey range with a shallowly-pitched tiled roof. Its elevations are painted brick, with casement windows featuring tiled sills on the south and east faces.

The ground floor of the main range comprises a lounge to the west and dining room to the east, separated by a timber-framed wall rising to meet the central roof truss. In both ground-floor rooms, the floor frame of the upper storey is exposed, displaying deeply-chamfered spine beams with curved stepped stops, roughly-hewn almost square joists, and wall plates supporting the upper floor. The dining room contains a brick inglenook fireplace with rebuilt jambs and a chamfered timber bressumer, incorporating a bread oven with a cast iron door.

The stair, possibly a 19th-century insertion, rises to a short landing with rooms on either side and a small WC. A closed queen-post roof truss forms the partition to the eastern bedroom; the tie beam has been cut to form a doorway. The roof structure consists of paired rafters with a diagonally-set ridge piece, butt purlins and roughly-hewn collars, with the loft ceiled at collar level.

The kitchen occupies the eastern extension and is open to the roof, which has deep unchamfered tie beams with bracing struts. The timbers show evidence of reuse.