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Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1894. Reroofed, 2005. Pitched roof with part chicken wire-covered replacement rye straw thatch, mesh-covered exposed hazel or sally stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, cement rendered chimney stack having corbelled stepped stringcourse below capping, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed lintels framing timber panelled doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth with rusticated surround, timber boarded opposing doors, and timber sheeted ceiling in carved timber frame. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to road with cylindrical piers to perimeter having polygonal capping.
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