Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse with an attached former malthouse, extended and remodelled in the early 18th century, and with later additions and alterations. The house has a basic L-shaped plan, consisting of a gabled crosswing projecting to the rear on the right, and a long range with two gables projecting to the rear. A lower malthouse is attached to the gable end of the long range. The crosswing is built of regularly coursed and dressed limestone block facing a rubble core, while the long range is of regularly coursed and dressed rubble, with a timber-framed section to the front (roughcast and weatherboarded). The roofs are covered in machine tiles and corrugated iron.

The house is two storeys high. Early 20th-century casement windows are set into the house, and there is one on each floor to the crosswing and long range; one first-floor window breaks the eaves. The entrance is on the left of the crosswing, with a flat-roofed stone porch over a six-panel door, the top panels now glazed, within a fluted wooden surround. A partly illegible datestone inscribed "SL/J/-7--" sits above a first-floor window to the gable. A former integral end stack with a dripstone and red brick top rises from the junction with the malthouse section. A prominent rendered ridge stack is centrally placed on the crosswing.

The malthouse has a plank door on the first floor, accessed by external lateral stone steps, with small hatches to the ground floor and below the eaves. The lower range has a plank door to the right, with a small hatch immediately to the left, and a small ridge stack. The rear gable projecting roughly on line with the stack has a decorative cusped quatrefoil framing (likely late 16th century) to its apex, and a leaded casement window on the first floor.

The interior of the house, which was not inspected during a resurvey in September 1986, is said to have moulded and chamfered ceiling beams, heavy joists, and decorative wainscot panelling.

The malthouse incorporates a back wall and part of the front wall of the higher range, which are timber-framed with square panels and wattle and daub infill. The higher range has a collar and tie beam roof in two bays, with a large stack visible to the right. The lower range preserves a vaulted red brick kiln on the ground floor, complete with a furnace, and a drying floor above with perforated tiles.