I looked at what I thought was to be a Listed Building today, but it just turned out to be another old farmhouse, semi-detached at that! But, what a semi-detached farmhouse it is. It was, I was told the oldest part of the dwelling, that dated back to at least 1500, so I'm very surprised it was not listed, particularly as having now seen it. The main living room had exposed cross beams into which were double rows of mortices, cut into them to take the original double tenoned floor joist ends! The wall between the living room and the smaller drawing room was an introduction, so giving the ground floor the aire, almost of a baronial hall – terrific! It creaked and groaned as I walked through the upper levels and most, if not all the exposed timber was fairly heavily attacked by death watch beetle (no, the house was not being held up by them holding hands). There were two fire places in the 'hall as a whole' and decent solid flagstone floors, where exposed. It sits in a good sized garden, almost paddock like and has a delightful approach round a large ornamental pond on which Mr and Mrs Muscovy Duck were living, along with their neighbours, The Moorhens and Mr and Mrs Goose, who had flown in from Canada...   more »