Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the mid-to-late 18th century, with alterations from the early 19th and mid-to-late 19th centuries. It has an L-shaped layout, with later 18th and 19th century additions to the rear. The house is built of red brick with a plain tile roof. It is two storeys high with a gable-lit attic. A dentil brick eaves cornice runs around the top of the building. Integral brick end stacks are located to the left and an external brick end stack to the right of the three-bay front. The first floor has wooden cross windows with segmental relieving arches, and a central fixed Venetian window with curved Y-tracery. The ground floor windows were replaced in the early 19th century; there are 16-pane and 20-pane glazing bar sashes with painted stone cills and lintels. A central entrance door dating to the early 19th century has six beaded flush panels, a two-part rectangular overlight with bars behind, a pegged oak frame, and a flat hood on shaped brackets. A late 19th century one-storey addition is located to the right, with a dentil brick eaves cornice and boxed four-pane sashes to the front and right-hand return, featuring painted stone cills and lintels. A two-storey parallel range extends to the rear, with a central brick ridge stack. A further two-storey rear wing projects beyond, with a bread oven and a small integral lateral brick stack.

Inside, there is a late 18th century staircase with straight flights, a closed string, rectangular-section stick balusters (likely a later alteration), a ramped moulded handrail, and a beaded square foot newel post. A right-hand ground-floor room, likely the original kitchen, has a large open fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel. The left-hand ground-floor front room has raised and fielded dado panelling. A 18th century fireplace is present with a lugged architrave, frieze and moulded cornice, alongside flanking segmental-headed recesses with moulded imposts. A small room behind the left-hand room shows evidence of a former corner fireplace. The first floor was not inspected. Old photographs indicate the house previously had three gabled dormers, and there is a difference in the colour of the roof tiles.