Sevington Farmhouse

Sevington Farmhouse is a manorial farmhouse dating from the 15th century, with a wing added around 1600 and later remodelled in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building features a timber frame with plaster and rubble flint infill, with some parts rebuilt or encased in brick, all rendered under an old plain tiled roof. The late medieval hall house has a taller cross-wing with a staircase tower that was added around 1600. The façade was re-fronted in the 18th century, and where the hall and cross-wing join, the bays were rebuilt and extended following a fire in the 19th century.

The front, which is now the side of the cross-wing, is two storeys with an attic and consists of two bays, with a central narrow bay for a large stack and the stair tower on the other side. To the right is the earlier hall house, which is one and a half storeys, projecting forward with two bays, and another two bays behind. A 19th-century gabled porch features a three-centred arch with a fanlight above a three-panelled top-lit door. Flanking the porch are 19th-century 16-pane flush framed sash windows. On the first floor, there are three wide 12-pane flush frame sashes.

The side of the projection has a 19th-century one or two-light casement window on each floor, and a blank end bay with a large stack that contains a bread oven and a smoking room above. The left gable end displays exposed close-studded timber framing and features original and replica ovolo mullioned windows on each floor, including a seven-light window on the ground floor, two three-light windows on the first floor, and a five-light window in the attic, which is jettied on a moulded bressemer. The roof is half-hipped, with boxed eaves and a two-light hipped dormer in the right bay. The large square stack has four diamond stacks.

Inside, the medieval wing retains remnants of a smoke-blackened crown post roof and heavy reused timbers on the first floor. The cross-wing largely remains from around 1600, with panelled ground and first floor parlours at the left end, featuring arabesque inlay on the ground floor cornice and a moulded cornice on the first floor. A complete four-newel-post staircase is located in the tower, with moulded door surrounds to the rooms off the landing. Original three-centred chamfered brick fireplaces are found in the rooms on either side of the stack. The attic room has an original door and a queen post roof with butt purlins, cross braces to the collars, and straight wind braces.