Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a building dating from around 1500, originally serving as a guildhall or church house, with alterations made in the 16th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a roof covered in machine-made red clay tiles. The structure consists of four bays aligned approximately northeast to southwest, with a southeast aspect. There is a late 16th-century axial chimney stack located one bay from the northeast end, and an 18th-century internal chimney stack at the southwest end. At the rear, there is a stair tower with a catslide roof behind the main stack, along with single-storey extensions featuring lean-to roofs on either side.

The building has two storeys and is jettied on the front elevation, supported by two plain brackets that are exposed, with the southwest bay underbuilt. The entrance features a plain boarded door, accompanied by two 19th-century casement windows and one single-hung sash window with 12 lights. On the first floor, there are four 19th-century casement windows. The exterior displays 18th and 19th-century pargetting in panels with moulded borders.

Inside, there is a hollow-moulded doorway with a four-centred head in the partition wall of the southwest bay, a double-ogee moulded axial beam with carved foliate stops, jowled posts, and grooves for sliding shutters on both floors. The rear wallplate shows an edge-halved and bridled scarf joint. Originally, the upper floor was a single undivided space of four bays intended for public use. Access to the roof is not available. The pegging of the rear wall suggests that there was originally a rear wing, which explains the narrow span of approximately 5 metres. Its location directly opposite the church confirms its historical role as a public building. A guild of St. Margaret is noted in the 1524 Lay Subsidy records.