| Description | This farmhouse was probably built in the early 17th century, and then altered and cased in stone in the 18th century. It is of magnesian limestone rubble with quoins, with a pantiled roof with corrugated sheet eaves, but incorporating the remains of a former timber framed structure. The building has a linear three cell lobby entry plan, with a continuous rear outshut. It is two storeys high. It has a steeply pitched roof with a gabled parapet at the left end, a chimney on the ridge in line with the door and another at the right gable.
The interior of the building displays evidence of a former timber framed structure, which includes one wall post in the front wall, at the junction of the second and third bays, and three in the screen wall to the outshut with a wall plate. There are peg holes in this wall plate for longitudinal bracing to the posts and towards the present stone gable wall at the left end. There is some evidence to suggest that the roof was formerly hipped at this end. There is also a ‘beehive’ bread oven in the rear of one of the stacks, which is now concealed (English Heritage, 1986). |