College Farmhouse

College Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It likely has origins from the 16th century but was encased in the late 17th century, with further alterations and additions made in the 18th and 19th centuries at the rear. The building underwent renovations in 1980. It features a timber frame that is underbuilt and encased in brick laid in English bond to the earlier section, topped with a pantile roof. The structure is L-shaped, with a central entrance hall and a two-room wing to the rear left.

The farmhouse stands two storeys high and has three symmetrical bays. The round-headed entrance is adorned with a keyed architrave and features a six-fielded-panel door with a blind fanlight set in a fielded-panel arched reveal. The windows are 16-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves, with a two-course brick band at the first floor. There are similar first-floor sashes, including a smaller central 16-pane sash. All the sashes are 20th-century replacements, and there are traces of earlier blocked openings on both floors. The building has a corbelled brick eaves cornice, brick coped and tumbled gables, and end stacks. The left return features 16-pane sliding sashes.

Inside, the exposed timber framing includes central tie beams on both floors, a post with braces on the first floor left, and partitions with brick and plaster infill in the stair hall. Late 17th to early 18th-century features include an open well staircase with a closed string, bulb-on-vase balusters, a plain newel with an ornate scrolled bracket, and segmental-arched brick fireplaces on the ground floor. The first-floor front rooms have wooden bolection chimneypieces with moulded cornice mantlepieces, and there are two-fielded-panel doors and cupboard doors with L-hinges. A two-light wooden mullioned window with leaded panes has been re-set in the rear passage. The ground floor right features early 19th-century beaded-panel doors, window shutters, and a plaster cornice.

In 1714, Philip and Sarah Stanford left the property in trust to support a school, which is why it has been referred to by various earlier names, including College, School, or Paupers Farm.