Poplar Farmhouse

Poplar Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th to early 17th century. An inner room has since been demolished, and the building was restored in the late 20th century. It features roughcast over rubble and cob, with a thatched roof on the front facade and slate at the rear. There is a double Roman tiled wing, a brick stack on the left gable end with a bread oven projection, and a stone stack to the right of the cross passage. The house has an L-plan layout, consisting of 2 cells and the remains of a 3-cell and cross passage house. It is one and a half storeys high with 2 bays, and the roof continues as a catslide over the left projection on the facade. The central door has 6 raised and fielded panels with 2 inserted lights, and there is a thatched hooded porch. Although the interior has not been seen, it is said to contain an early type of bacon curing chamber in the projection on the facade, a bressumer beam over the fireplace, chamfered lateral beams in both rooms, a flat peaked doorframe at the rear entrance of the through passage, and 2 pairs of clean jointed cruck trusses over the room to the right of the through passage, which was formerly the hall.