Rye Topping Farmhouse

Rye Topping Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the early 18th century, with an early 19th-century extension and later alterations from the late 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from dressed limestone, featuring tooled quoins and dressings, with a stone flag roof at the front and Roman tiles at the rear, along with brick stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan with an added outshut and is two storeys high with a three-window front. The entrance features a 20th-century half-glazed door with a divided overlight, flanked by 16-pane sash windows. The first floor has two-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows. The window openings are roughly quoined with painted stone sills, and all openings have tripartite keyed lintels. The steeply-pitched roof has rudimentary kneelers and end stacks. At the rear, there are two low storeys with a pent roof. Inside, there is a closed-string straight staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail. The door to the ground-floor room on the right has four raised and fielded panels with quarter-round mouldings, and there is a second door to a cupboard in the rear wall that is the same. On the first floor, three early 18th-century doors with two roughly fielded panels open off the landing.