Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a house dating from the 15th century and around 1670. It is timber framed and pebbledash rendered, topped with a long straw thatched roof that is half-hipped, featuring a grey gault brick ridge stack. The building has a single range plan with a lobby entry, although part of the crosswing from the 15th century remains on the right side. The kitchen wing at the rear is also from the 17th century and framed. The house has two storeys with attics. The crosswing jetties at the first floor and has one window on each storey. The main range features two 19th-century flush frame horizontal sliding sashes at the first floor, and the lobby entry has a doorway with a six-panelled door. There is one hung sash and one horizontal sliding sash at the ground floor.

Inside, the main beam in a ground floor room is supported by a pad similar to one found in No. 10 George Street, dated 1672. There are blocked inglenooks and some typical late 17th-century framing with shallow bracing visible at the first floor. The roof is constructed with clasped side purlins and uncarpentered timber. One of the upper rooms was used as a cheese chamber. The crosswing features ceiling joists of substantial scantling laid flat and unmoulded. An inspection of the roof showed it was rebuilt around 1670, although sooted rafters from the 15th-century roof were reused. A small early 18th-century closed-string staircase with vase-shaped balusters remains.