Fairhouse Farmhouse

Fairhouse Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed farmhouse that dates from the late medieval period, with a ceiling added in the 16th century. It was extended by one bay to the west, possibly in the 17th century, and a north wing was added in the late 18th to early 19th century. The building is rendered over rubble, with cob in the west end bay, and features thatched roofs that are half-hipped at the west end. There is a stone lateral stack to the hall on the south front, remains of an external stack at the west gable end, a stone stack in the north wing at the junction with the main block, and a brick stack at the north gable end.

The farmhouse has an L-plan layout and is an open hall house that has been ceiled to create a three-cell arrangement with a cross passage lying east-west. The extended west end includes a two-cell north wing addition with a staircase. The entrance front, facing north, is one and a half storeys high, with the north gable end unlit. It features a three-bay re-entrant angle and a four-bay original block. The first floor has dormers on the left flanking a three-light leaded iron casement set below the eaves, with a 20th-century window inserted over the entrance. There is also a four-light leaded iron casement dormer window and a 20th-century window set below the eaves, while the end bay on the left is unlit.

On the ground floor, there are left-side four and three-light 19th-century wooden casements, a lean-to porch at the angle with a pointed arch doorframe leading to the inner doorway, a right-side two-light leaded iron casement, a 20th-century window in the center, and a three-light leaded iron casement in the end bay on the right. The interior has not been seen but is said to contain a stud and plank screen to the through passage with remains of a pointed arch doorway, a four-panel compartment ceiling in the hall with a modern grate to the lateral stack, and another stud and plank screen between the hall and the inner room, which contains a narrow axial passage to the west gable end addition. This partition is also a stud and plank screen. Inside the west gable end, a jointed cruck truss is visible, along with four plastered-over trusses, which are assumed to also be crucks.