Spring Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding

Spring Farmhouse and the attached outbuilding are a farmhouse and barn dating from the late 16th century. The building was remodeled and extended with the barn in the late 18th century or early 19th century, with further alterations made in the 19th century. The structure features roughly coursed limestone rubble walls and a gabled roof, which has concrete tiles on the front range and mainly clay double Roman tiles elsewhere. There are brick end stacks on the front range.

The building has an L-shaped plan with a newel stair leading to an unheated wing at the rear of the two-room front range. Each room is heated, with the right-hand room being larger. There is evidence of a doorway in the left-hand room that suggests the house may have originally extended to the left with a cross passage and service room, with the barn added to the rear.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a two-window front. It features timber lintels over late 20th-century two-light casements above two late 16th or early 17th-century moulded and wood-mullioned ground-floor windows, with three lights to the left and four lights to the right. The left gable end has a 20th-century two-light casement and evidence of a vertical straight joint. There are some 20th-century concrete and timber additions. The late 18th or early 19th-century outbuilding at the rear, originally a barn and animal house, has timber lintels over two doorways.

Inside, the front left-hand room has an intersecting beamed ceiling in six panels with deep chamfers. The fireplace features a chamfered timber lintel with a projecting chamfered cornice above. An original chamfered doorframe with a cambered head leads into the right-hand room, which boasts an elaborate sixteen-panel intersecting beamed ceiling that is richly moulded. A later inserted partition in this room cuts across a very wide fireplace with a stop-chamfered lintel. The wooden newel stair has solid timber treads in the rear wing. The first floor was not inspected but the current owner believes it has been reroofed without original trusses. Although the house was likely truncated in the 19th century, the interiors, with their high-quality carpentry in both the former hall and inner room, remain significant survivals.