Church House Farmhouse

A farmhouse, now a house, dating to 1698, with later alterations. The building is constructed of colour-washed brick with stone quoins at ground floor level, and has a stone slate roof. It follows a three-bay baffle-entry plan, featuring a projecting porch and a single-storey rear extension to the third bay. The two-storey design incorporates a plinth and a two-course band. The gabled porch, aligned with a ridge chimney between the second and third bays, has a segmental-headed doorway, above which is a square datestone inscribed with "JOHN . MARY. H ESKETH 1698". To the first floor of the porch is a segmental-headed two-light window. To the left of the porch are two segmental-headed two-light windows on each floor. To the right, there is a two-light casement window at ground floor, and an altered three-light window above. The rear elevation features segmental-headed windows, mostly altered. Internally, the house has been altered. The housepart in the middle bay has an inglenook fireplace with a heck and bressummer, along with two longitudinal beams with run-out stops and a similar beam in the service end of the first bay, all displaying stopped 1/4-round moulding.