Channel Farmhouse

Channel Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1857 by S S Teulon for the Crown Commissioners, with some 20th-century alterations, including partial rebuilding of the north range. The building is constructed of red-brown brick in Flemish bond, accented with orange brick dressings, and features a concrete tile roof. It has an approximately L-shaped plan, consisting of a double-depth main range with a projecting wing that forms a two-room principal south garden front and an entrance porch on the west front. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a chamfered plinth.

On the south front, there are four first-floor windows. The projecting gabled wing to the left has a ground-floor brick canted bay window with a 12-pane sash window at the front and 8-pane sashes on the sides, all beneath segmental arches. To the right, there is a pair of 12-pane sashes beneath segmental pointed arches. The first-floor windows are similar but slightly smaller, and all windows feature orange rubbed-brick arches. The eaves are stepped, and the gable has tumbled-in brick with a central decorative flush brick round panel set in a yellow surround. The right side has a half-hipped roof, and there are partly projecting end stacks with rubbed-in brick at the offsets and rebuilt top sections.

The left return forms the west entrance front, which has a projecting section to the left with a narrower gabled full-height porch adjoining to the right. The porch features a flush buttress with tumbled-in brick at the offset, a chamfered segmental-pointed entrance with a 20th-century half-glazed door beneath a plain overlight, and a segmental-arched panel above containing a painted relief tablet with a crown, royal cypher, and date. There is also a small single-light segmental-headed window on the first floor of the porch gable, which has tumbled-in brick and stepped eaves. The section to the left includes a pair of 16-pane ground-floor windows and a similar single first-floor window, all beneath segmental arches, with a 20th-century low-pitched hipped roof. This farmhouse is part of a series of mid-19th-century buildings associated with the Crown estate, designed by Teulon.