Listed Building: VALLEY FARMHOUSE (286441)

CLOPTON MARTINS LANE TM 25 NW (East side) 4/27 Valley Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. C16 or C17 with extensive additions of the 1930s. Timber framed with colourwashed render and a plain-tiled roof. Two storeys and 4- cell plan with baffle-entry. Entrance front: C20 fenestration. Projecting C20 porch at left of centre with a central bullseye window and a plank door at left and a 2-light casement to the right flank. To left a 3-light ground floor casement window and to right a 5-light, a 4-light and a 3- light casements. To the first floor are four 3-light casements and a 2- light casement, all of C20 date. To the ridge at left of centre is an axial stack with 2 flues. Further axial stack to the right hand gable end. The left hand gable end has 3-light windows to ground and first floors. Recessed and at left of this is a 1930s addition which has 2-light ground and first floor casements. The left hand gable end has the 1930s brick stack with offsets to left and at right of this are 2-light ground and first floor windows. To right is the 1930s range which has a recessed portion at left with a ½-glazed door and a single-light ground floor window and 2 single-light first floor windows and to right a projecting outshut with a lean-to roof, a single light casement at right of this and a 4-light first floor and single-light attic windows. Rear: outshut to the whole of the length of the ground floor with double gabled projecting wing to the right with a canted bay window to the ground floor at left and French windows to right and two 3-light casements to the first floor. To left of this is a projecting wing which has a 4-light ground floor casement and a clapboarded gable above. Interior: Chamfered ceiling beams with stepped run-out stops to the ground floor. Panels of pargetting to the ceiling probably of 1930s date or brought from elsewhere at that time and showing fleurs de lys and unicorn and rope. Four-centered chimney arch with carved roses to the spandrels, probably of C20 date. The hall has chamfered ceiling beams with bar and ogee end-stops and similar wall plate and joists. Close studded walling and one window of 3-lights with diamond section mullions, and boarded doors. Cambered bressumer to the fireplace which has some original brickwork. The first floor rooms all have close studding, chamfered ceiling beams, jowled wall posts and wide oak floorboards. Listing NGR: TM2334955224