Old Callow Down Farmhouse

Old Callow Down Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th and early 16th centuries, with alterations around 1600 and subsequent changes. The house has a timber frame construction using crucks, with rendered infill at the rear and brick infill to the front and gable of the left bay, where the cruck truss is exposed. The right bays were refronted in the 18th century using red and vitreous chequer brick, with a rendered plinth. The right gable is partially rendered. The roof is covered in old tiles, with a brick chimney between the left bays and later brick end chimneys.

The house is one storey and attic, with three bays. Windows are irregular, 20th-century leaded casements, including a dormer with a paired casement in the centre bay. A small window is situated below the eaves over a 20th-century door between the left bays. A 19th-century brick and flint extension to the rear creates an L-shaped plan.

Inside, there are four asymmetrical cruck trusses, the blades of which terminate above the collars. The outer bays retain original floors with heavy longitudinal joists. The left bay features a cross passage, likely added later. A floor and chimney were inserted into the central hall around 1600. The spine beam and ground floor fireplace lintel are chamfered with run-out stops. The first-floor fireplace has a depressed arch of chamfered brick. Original rafters and curved wind-braces remain in the roof.