Hamwood Farmhouse And Wall Abutting North Corner With Gatepiers And Gate

Hamwood Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with a boundary wall to the garden, located at the north corner and featuring gatepiers and a gate. The building was restored in the late 20th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond with a rubble plinth and Ham stone dressings, showcasing striping on the porch, slate roofs, overhanging eaves, and a bargeboarded gable front on the right. The farmhouse has a stone stack on the left gable end and another at the center of the crosswing.

The structure is L-shaped, with a full-height porch and stair turret facing a two-cell cross passage that includes a back-to-back fireplace on the northeast front. It is two storeys tall with a symmetrical arrangement of bays, featuring a gabled right bay with 17th-century three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned ashlar windows under hood moulds. The two-light porch interrupts the string course and has a finely carved coat of arms to the left above a four-centred arch-moulded door frame, with 19th-century half-glazed double doors. The right return has one and a half bays with a small light in between, likely for the stair.

The rear elevation includes a moulded four-centred arch head door frame with a 17th-century four by five panelled door leading to the cross passage, and a similar door frame for a doorway aligned with the courtyard at the back. The interior has not been seen but is said to contain a very fine east gable end fireplace with a four-centred head moulded lintel and spandrels carved with a herringbone pattern. This farmhouse is a rare example of a 17th-century brick house that remains largely unaltered. The coat of arms is believed to belong to John Baker of Hamwood, who died in 1677, and there is a memorial to him in the Church of All Saints, Trull.