Lickfold Farm

The building is a farmhouse, likely dating from the mid-16th century, with alterations in the 17th, 18th, and later centuries. It is timber-framed with wattle and daub infill, largely clad in ironstone rubble, with some areas galletted—where the cladding has been removed to reveal the underlying structure—and red brick dressings and quoins. The roof is covered in plain tiles. Originally comprising three cells, it likely had a smoke bay between the right-hand cells. A chimney was inserted into the smoke bay, and later outstruts (projecting sections) were added to the rear and side of the building. The exterior has been re-clad, an external stack has also been added, and the whole structure has undergone various changes over the centuries. The building is two storeys high with four windows on the first floor. The ground-floor openings have segmented brick arches. First-floor windows are set below the eaves, and a plaque is fixed to the front, commemorating the restoration of the building by Clive Pearson of Parham Park in 1954. The roof is hipped, with one side sloping steeply over a side outshut, and an external stack with offsets that rises to the ridge between bays two and three. At the rear, the building is one storey high with an attic, and has a C20 board door and three windows to the left and one to the right, with two hipped-roofed dormers above. The right return side reveals square-panelled timber framing on a rebuilt stone plinth and has a single window. Internally, the square-panelled timber frame is exposed, although the front wall has been replaced with stone and the front door is not in its original location. Features include a jowelled wall post, straight braces, chamfered beams with lambs tongue stops, an old brick-lined fireplace with a timber lintel in the central room (where a partition wall has been removed), and a lounge fireplace in the right-hand room containing two brick bread ovens. The roof is largely original, containing old rafters, some sooting, and queen post and angled queen strut trusses. An old cellar is also present. One listing describes the building as dating from the 17th century, with a steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof, casement windows, and a plaque noting the 1954 restoration by Clive Pearson of Parham Park.