Common Down Farmhouse

Common Down Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th to early 17th century, with restoration work carried out in the 20th century. It features roughcast and painted rubble, a thatched roof, and brick stacks. The building has a two-cell cross passage plan with an extension to the right. It is one and a half storeys high with four bays on the front and two on the side. There are three dormer windows with three-light casements; the leftmost dormer has 17th-century ovolo moulded mullion windows. The left side has a four-light window on the ground floor, while the right side has a 20th-century four-light casement and a two-light opening in the outer bay. A four-centred arch doorway with a medieval-style stud and plank door is located in the second bay from the left, and there is a raking buttress on the left end. The two-bay extension to the right has its own thatched roof and features 20th-century casements with leaded panes, including a two-light window on the first floor and a three-light window on the ground floor, along with a partially glazed porch with a hipped thatched roof at the end bay. At the rear, there is an outshut that has been enlarged into a gabled two-storey projection in the 20th century. Inside, there is a stud and brick infill partition to the left of the cross passage, a four-centred headed doorway, a deeply chamfered beam with diamond stops, and a staircase bay to the right of the open fireplace.