This large country farmhouse once was home to the owners of a 650 acre estate. The application of hard cement pebbledash in the mid 1950s, combined with its exposed West-facing position, caused considerable damage to the outer leaves of the pine ends and rotted many of the timber elements. The decline of this beautiful house was halted when the cement was removed and replaced with soft lime mortars, interior lime plaster, lime roughcast and lime-wash.