NHER 49810 (Building record) - Busy Bee Farm

Long block of single storey and attic with at end a taller two storey block. Long block has gable wall of Flemish bond brick, probably with horizontal skintlings (after around 1770). The façade is rendered and the cement bears the impressed date JWHG 1987. The rear wall is covered by outshuts. The roof is pantiled and may have been thatched, it bears two long wedge dormers. The interior has a stack against the taller block and another at the centre, both with fireplaces containing large collapsed iron ranges. Each has a winding stair by it. The ground floor is low with plain ceiling beams. At attic level a reused beam is against the end stack. The date is probably early 19th century. The taller block is of red brick and bears a plaque BUSYBEE 1893.
(S1) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 16 February 2007.