Listed Building: DRIVERS FARMHOUSE (279466)

FINNINGHAM GISLINGHAM ROAD (NORTH TM 0669 SIDE) 7/10 Driver's Farm House 29.7.55 - II House, latterly 2 dwellings. Mid C16 and probably earlier, altered early C17 and C19. Timber frame, plastered. Pantiled roofs. Probably a small 2 bay open hall with a storeyed lower end originally; parlour added, floor and stack inserted to form a 3 cell cross passage plan with a 2 bay jettied upper crosswing to left. 2 storeys. Ground floor: cross passage and lobby entrances, boarded doors with simple surrounds, common hoodboard over hall and service 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements, parlour 3-light glazing bar casement on a slightly projecting brick base. First floor 3-light part opening metal frame casement over hall, jettied end has curved brackets to parlour chamber with C19 beading, 3-light glazing bar casement, curved brackets to exposed plates, pentice board, exposed side purlins, bargeboards. Axial ridge stack of C17 brick at left end of main range, slightly lower ridge on cross wing. Right end C19 external stack with an oven outshut, a loft door and hatch, pentice board, exposed plates and side purlins. Left return has an exposed post and mid-rail, jetty to rear of parlour with butt ended joists on 4 large curved brackets. Interior: frame concealed, hall has stop chamfered axial binding beam, joists and mid-rail, bolection moulded fireplace surround, parlour has a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam on storey posts, double roll and hollow moulded bar stopped joists, loft over service bay has tension braces in altered walling, a tie beam removed; otherwise first floor and roof not inspected. Listing NGR: TM0672869585