Home Farm, No. 61 Including Farmhouse And Outbuildings Attached To Rear

Home Farm on The Green is a substantial farmhouse with attached cottage and outbuildings, dating from the 18th and early 19th centuries with later alterations.

The main farmhouse is a two-storey brick building with a tile M-shaped roof and brick stacks. It comprises two parallel ranges, with the front range extended by an additional bay containing an integral loft. A long range of brick outbuildings and stabling extends eastward from the south end. The attached cottage is timber-framed and brick, also with a tile roof.

The western elevation of the farmhouse is divided into two sections. The right-hand range has three window bays with end stacks. The ground floor features a pair of sashes with sidelights flanking a central entrance door with a rectangular fanlight set within an architrave, sheltered by an entrance porch with a wood pointed-arch roof above wrought-iron trellis. Three 6-over-6 sash windows light the first floor. To the left, an additional bay incorporates a loft; this has a blind window with keyblock and a 4-pane sash at ground floor level, below a blind window at first floor.

The north elevation displays two gables. The right gable is advanced, contains the loft bay, and features Flemish bond brickwork with burned headers and a segmental arch-headed window. The left gable contains a central stack.

The east elevation shows the rear of the two parallel ranges. The main range has a first floor loft door, while the rear range has multiple openings: a door, a 4-panel segmental arch-headed leaded-light window, a 6-over-6 sash at ground floor, and 3-light and 2-light leaded windows with segmental arch heads at first floor. The cottage, outbuilding and stabling range extends eastward from this point.

The south elevation has adjacent gables, each with brick stacks and a raised brick wall to the valley. The eastern portion contains the cottage, outbuilding and stabling range. The cottage has a 3-light leaded casement at first floor, a 20th-century door, and a pair of 3-light segmental arch-headed casements at ground floor. The outbuilding displays a central door with mostly Flemish bond and burned headers in the lower part. A continuous wall with no openings extends eastward, with a later outshut added.

The north elevation of the cottage, outbuilding and stabling range has numerous openings. The cottage features a 3-light leaded window at first floor and a 20th-century door below a blocked wide segmental arch. Burned brick horizontal banding runs throughout this elevation, arranged more closely toward the top. A door with a striped segmental arch head, a stable door, and a take-in door occupy the centre of the range, flanked by pairs of multi-pane sliding sashes. Ventilation holes arranged in a diamond pattern perforate the brickwork, one section interrupted by a later window. The north wall at the east end, probably rebuilt in the later 19th century, has three segmental arch-headed openings: a single-light window, a wide entrance, and a 6-pane window. The east end has a steep gable and loft door.

The interior of the farmhouse features a wide entrance hall with a clay tile floor and a straight stair to the rear with stick balusters and a turned newel springing from a foliate base. Front rooms to right and left have 3-panel shutters, architraves to sash windows, and wide 4-panel doors. The right room has an open segmental arch-headed brick fireplace flanked by arched niches. The left room has a cast-iron fireplace with oxblood tiles and built-in cupboards. Rear rooms to right and left have 4-panel doors; the left room features a wide open brick fireplace with an opening to the farmyard, and the right room opens to the rear range.

At first floor, stick balusters continue to the landing. Four bedrooms each contain a wood fireplace with iron grates (some dating to the early 19th century), sash windows, and 4-panel doors. The extended bay to the north contains a first floor loft of two bays with a staggered and tenoned purlin roof with ridge board.

The perpendicular range extending eastward is an 18th-century timber-framed domestic building with plank doors and plank panelling enclosing the stair at first floor. Ground and first floor rooms contain wood and cast-iron fireplaces.

The outbuilding and stabling range was altered at ground floor for kennels. It contains three heavy queen-post trusses with tenoned purlins, followed by two later queen-post trusses with a ridge board.