Church Farm House

Church Farm House is a farm house dating from the late 16th century, with additions and alterations from the 17th century and around 1700, as well as minor changes from the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, and features a pantile roof with two raised stone coped gables, one stone ridge stack, one stone gable stack, and one brick gable stack. The building is L-shaped in plan.

The elevation facing the road has a two-storey long wing that is irregularly fenestrated, along with a single-storey gabled cross wing to the right that has attics. In the long wing, there is a 20th-century three-light glazing bar casement set in a larger blocked opening, which retains its original 16th-century hoodmould and label stops. To the left of this opening, changes in the building indicate that this wing was raised and extended. Beyond this, there is a single fixed light, and above are two two-light glazing bar casements with timber lintels, with the left one set at a lower level. The remainder of this elevation is blank.

The projecting cross wing features two very weathered three-light ovolo mullion casements with cornices. Flanking the first-floor window are single 14th-century carved heads incorporated into the masonry. The two-bay front of the cross wing has a plinth and a flush band of larger stones at the first-floor level. On the right side, there is a three-light cavetto moulded mullion window with a cornice, and above this are two 20th-century through-eaves gabled dormers. A later 19th-century single-storey extension conceals two further three-light 17th-century mullion windows in the south gable.

Inside, there is a large 16th/17th-century inglenook fireplace with moulded stone piers and a chamfer-stopped beam. The exposed beams in the long wing are of a type from around 1700 with small stops. The roof over the cross wing features ties that are about 1200mm above the first-floor level and pass in front of an in-situ 17th-century window. This roof is a clasped purlin type with cross bracing in the lower half, likely dating to the late 16th century. The roof of the long wing from around 1700 is of the staggered butt purlin type.