Buckmore Farmhouse With Attached Cartshed And Privy

Buckmore Farmhouse is a substantial building dating from the 17th century, with additions from the 18th century and around 1900. It incorporates a cartshed and a former privy. The main house is timber-framed with wattle and daub infill, with the ground floor bricked and the first floor tile-hung; a later wing is of red brick in stretcher bond. The roofs are tiled, with Welsh slate to the cartshed and privy. A brick stack punctuates the ridge.

The original farmhouse was likely three bays, but the left end was replaced around 1900 with a cross-wing. A single-storey, three-bay cartshed, probably built in the early 19th century, is attached to the right, with a privy added to the rear around 1900.

The south elevation shows the original section on the right with thin, irregular orange brick to the ground floor, a plinth, and a four-panel door with an overlight and pent canopy. There are two wooden casements with eight panes to each floor, the ground floor window below a segmental brick arch. The right side of the roof is half-hipped, and a ridge stack sits in line with the door. The left projecting wing, built around 1900, was rebuilt in 1990 and features a window of that date and a canted bay window with sash windows. The cartshed has replacement weatherboard and two 1990 windows, and a half-hipped roof.

The rear of the house features an outshut with orange brick in English bond and a catslide roof, including a board door, small-pane casement, and stack at the corner. The cartshed retains an old tarred weatherboard door, a two-pane window, and the former privy has a board door to one side.

The return to the right displays the cartshed with two open bays, wall posts arch-braced to a wall plate and a weatherboard gable. The return of the 1900 wing has a central six-panel door, a sash window with two panes, and several other sash windows with four panes per floor, the upper one under a gablet. A stack marks the left end, and there are eaves on the right.

Inside the original 17th-century part of the farmhouse, sections of timber framing are visible, including jowelled wall posts, wall plates, and a panelled rear wall with arch braces. A ground floor room features arched niches and an original chamfered cross-beam with lambs tongue stops and a moulded bracket. Original doors, a fireplace and a staircase are notable features in the 1900 wing. The building is included on the list for its group value.