Parsonage Farmhouse

Parsonage Farmhouse is a former glebe house that has been converted into a private residence. It dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, with later alterations. The building is constructed of local stone rubble, rendered and colorwashed on the front, with Ham stone ashlar dressings. It features a thatched roof with a coped south gable and a plain overhung gable to the north, which may be over a timber-framed gable. There are brick chimney stacks at each end.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a three-bay west elevation. The first bay has a three-light hollow-chamfered mullioned window set high in a wave-mould recess with a square label above it. The second bay contains a three-light casement window from around 1800, featuring horizontal glazing bars. The third bay has a two-storey square bay window with a configuration of 1+3+1 lights that matches the others. There is a lean-to extension against the south gable with a double Roman clay-tiled roof and a two-light casement in the west wall. A single-storey unrendered extension is attached to the north gable, featuring a two-light leaded casement, along with another lean-to against this.

On the rear east elevation, there is a single-storey thatched porch, a three-light mullioned window, and several 18th-century leaded casements. Although the interior was not seen, it is reported to contain the remains of a two-bay medieval hall, with a parlour to the south and a later kitchen to the north. The roof structure includes heavily blackened arch-braced open crucks and some unblacked closed crucks, along with hollow-chamfered beams, one of which has a keel stop. There is also a stud and panel screen with remnants of a triangular-arched opening. The building was likely a long house that underwent modernization in the 16th century, which included the insertion of a cross-passage and floor, as well as cambered-arched fireplaces, with some modifications made around 1800.