Tetts Farmhouse

Detached farmhouse, dating to the later 16th century, with modifications in the late 17th century and later. The house is constructed of near-ashlar ham stone with a thatched roof between stepped coped gables, and has brick chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and originally four bays wide. The first floor has hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses to the third bay, a two-light window without a label. The ground floor has a four-light window with a label to the second bay, a small-pane casement in the upper bay one under a timber lintol, and a three-light window with a voussoired flat arch to the lower bay four. Early pattern leaded casements are found in the upper bays two and four, each with a timber lintol, while the lower bay one has a two-light window with a timber lintol incorporating iron-framed opening lights. The lower bay three features a late 19th-century part-glazed door within a plain opening with a voussoired flat arch. The west gable has a buttress with offset, possibly of 18th-century date, and a break in the wall line at the rear, along with a blocked window opening. There are at least five pigeon holes at a higher level, irregularly placed. A 20th-century reshaped barn, no longer of special interest, is attached to the east gable. The interior, as reported, has a former three-room cross-passage plan that has been blocked by the insertion of a larger fireplace. There is a stud and panel partition between the east rooms, and the centre room contains a framed ceiling of six panels. The west room has been widened on its south side. The roof incorporates three jointed cruck trusses, two of which are closed with wattle and daub.