Built in 1908 to a design by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, it is a distinctive local example of a Tudor Revival English country house.

[1] The Farnum House is located south of the village center of Norfolk, on the west side of Litchfield Road (Connecticut Route 272).

Its main roof ridge is oriented parallel to the road, but its facade is dominated by large front-facing cross-gabled sections at either end, with an eyebrow dormer in between.

[2] The house was built in 1908 to a design by Taylor, a prominent New York City architect who summered in Norfolk.

It is one of three stucco houses designed by Taylor in the years 1906-08 that are set on the west side of Litchfield Road.