Deans Biggin Farmhouse

Deans Biggin Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th or early 17th century, with later alterations and additions. It is two storeys high and constructed of rubble with a slate roof, featuring three chimneys. The building has a symmetrical three-bay layout and includes a two-storey gabled porch. On either side of the porch are three-light windows with chamfered stone mullions; only the top left window has a chamfered surround and a moulded label, while the others have plain stone surrounds. The porch openings and the single-light windows flanking it on the ground floor also have plain stone surrounds. The first floor of the porch features a crude Venetian window with a keystone and a solid tympanum, with all three lights being sashed with glazing bars. The doorway has been altered from a round-headed to a segmental-headed design, and above it is a shield-shaped plaque with raised lettering that reads "IAB 1623." At the apex of the porch gable is a worn finial with four gables. At the rear of the building, there are later additions, except on the left side, where there is a three-light chamfered mullioned window on the first floor. Modern casements have replaced the windows, except for those in the porch. Inside, the farmhouse features exposed beams and a central chimney stack with three stone fireplaces, likely from the early 17th century. The large ground floor fireplace has a segmental head and moulded stopped chamfers, while the two first-floor fireplaces have triangular heads—one decorated with ornament and the date 1623, and the other with a shouldered heavily moulded square surround. The western part of the roof has been renewed with new trusses, while the eastern part is said to contain 17th-century king post trusses with cambered designs.