Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 16th century, which has been extended and altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with some of the framing exposed on the exterior, and it is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of four bays aligned approximately east-west, with a southern aspect and an axial chimney stack located in the second bay from the west. It is a single storey with attics and features a two-storey crosswing to the east that is from the 20th century.

The house has a gabled porch with a door on the east side and four casement windows, all of which are from the 20th century. On the first floor, there is one 20th-century casement window and two additional windows in hipped dormers. The chimney shafts are T-plan, and the roof is half-hipped at the west end. Some of the framing is exposed internally, showcasing jowled posts, arched braces to the wallplates, and a clasped purlin roof that is not smoke-blackened.

Inside, there is an inserted floor in the 'hall' area, featuring an axial beam that is plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and the exposed joists are of vertical section and unchamfered. A winding stair located to the north of the chimney stack provides access to the upper rooms on either side of the stack, which date from the early 17th century. Originally, the house appears to have been built with a brick chimney stack in a 'hall' that was open to the roof, with two storeyed ends; the floor was later inserted in the hall, and the winding stair was added in the early 17th century.