Kings Farm Little Stocks Farm

Little Stocks Farm and Kings Farm are a farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings, dating to the early 18th century with 19th and 20th-century additions and alterations. The house is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond variant, incorporating blue brick headers, with the right return being tile hung. It has two storeys with an attic and cellar. The original plan features a four-bay central lobby-entry configuration, with a rear outshut and 20th-century extensions to the rear.

The roadside elevation has a tall plinth, stepped on the right side. Brick steps lead to a blocked central doorway, now replaced with a three-pane window. To the right are two sets of three-light windows on each floor. To the left, the ground floor has four-light and three-light windows, while the upper floor has two-light and three-light windows; all the windows are small-pane wooden casements. A concrete lintel is above the left-hand ground-floor window, while the other openings have segmental brick arches with decoratively arranged blue brick headers. A hipped roof is topped with a large central brick stack, rebuilt around 1980, and external end stacks. The left-hand stack is 19th century, and the right-hand stack is 18th century with a rebuilt top (circa 1980). An infill lean-to with a boarded door and 1980s weather-boarding to the gable is situated in the angle to the right of the stack.

The rear roofline slopes down over the outshut. A mid-20th century lean-to on the right and a tall 1980s addition to the left are not considered of particular architectural interest. The left return has an inserted door (leading to Little Stocks Farm) with a bracketed pitched hood, alongside a small segmental brick-arched window. A mid-20th century single-storey addition to the left of the stack is also of limited interest. The right return has a boarded door (to Kings Farm) within a pent roofed porch, with a circa 1960 window to the right and above it.

The interior features original board doors with strap and H-hinges. The central stack incorporates back-to-back fireplaces; the fireplace in Kings Farm is large, elliptical-arched with curved inner corners and a bread oven on the right side, opening onto the outshut. A similar, smaller fireplace is in the adjacent room, with partition walls between the right-hand rooms having been taken down and partially rebuilt in the 1980s. A chamfered cross-beam with lambs tongue stops is situated at the division between the left-hand bays. Kings Farm includes a cellar with brick steps, a brick floor, and arched wall recesses; it also retains a fine dog-leg staircase with a closed string, turned balusters, square newel posts (the lowest having a ball finial), and a moulded handrail. A 19th-century iron grate is set within an 18th-century corniced wooden architrave in the right-hand room on the first floor. The roof structure consists of collared principal rafter trusses, staggered butt purlins, and old bridle-jointed rafters (without a ridge piece).