Gods House Farmhouse

Gods House Farmhouse is a 17th-century house that features a timber frame and rough render. It has a red plain tiled roof with barge boards on the return gables and a central chimney stack. The building is two storeys high and has a two-window range of two-light small paned casements. The entrance includes a central plank and muntin door with a moulded surround and a label above it. At the rear, there is an outshot. The house consists of two bays and a chimney bay, with an original stack that has 20th-century fire surrounds. Inside, there is an inserted ceiling with stop-chamfered bridging joists, square section ceiling beams, and jowled storey posts. It is believed to have been the original Meeting House of the Methodists and was occupied in 1796 by Thomas Went, a farmer, as noted in F.H. Erith's "Ardleigh in 1796" published in 1978.