The Farm has what may be part of the oldest known small house in this part of the country. It was owned by Merton College, Oxford, from 1270 until sold to the Palmer family in 1957. From the lane it appears to be a simple 18th century house, but the upper floor at the rear is 16th century and timber-framed, and has an overhang over a very curious undercroft.

The walls are of chalk block, about two feet thick, with stone quoins and narrow slit windows, which are blocked on the outside. There is a round headed doorway in the west wall. This undercroft once had a barrel vaulted ceiling, but this has been sliced off to take the Tudor joists above. All this indicates that it was the undercroft of a Norman house, perhaps as early as the 12th century. Any idea that it was once a chapel may be discounted as it is only nine feet wide inside.