Church House

Church House is a house with a core dating back to the 15th century, which was remodelled and extended in the early 19th century. It features a timber frame with brick infill and brick rebuilding that is rendered at the front, along with red brick extensions and a plain tile roof. The building has brick integral end stacks. Originally, it had a 2-bay open hall aligned east-west facing north, with a former cross-passage bay to the east. The extensions to the east are aligned the same way, while the southern extension runs north-south.

The house is two storeys tall, with the main house on the right and the extension on the left. The main house has two windows with casements and a door to the left set within a slight recess. The two-storey extension has a length of two bays but only one set of casements on the right. At the rear, there is exposed timber framing immediately to the right of the rear wing, featuring a rail at mid-height and a curved brace extending from the wall-post to the wall-plate.

Inside, there are two exposed 15th-century cross frames located in the centre and at the east end of the former open hall. On the first floor, there are indications of a western truss concealed behind plasterwork. All three roof trusses are visible in the loft. The central and western trusses have heavily jowelled wall-posts and curved braces extending to the tie beams. The western truss also has curved braces extending from wall-posts to a rail at eye level on the ground floor. The central truss features a chamfered fillet on the front of each wall post, which continues on the braces and cambered tie beam. Both the north and south wall-plates are intact, extending through the two main bays and the cross passage bay to the east. The roof trusses include central vertical struts and flanking raking struts between the tie beam and collar, clasped purlins, and principal rafters that are reduced in width above the collar to match the size of the common rafters, most of which are still present.