Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a timber-frame farmhouse with a west crosswing dating back to around 1500, likely associated with a former hall range that extended to the west. A late 16th-century range was added to the east side, featuring an 18th-century brick internal chimney. In the mid-19th century, a brick west block replaced the medieval hall range. The house was renovated in 1975. The farmhouse is constructed with a timber frame on a high brick sill, with roughcast rendering. The west block is of yellow brick. It has steep, old red tile roofs. The building is an irregular two-story structure set back from the lane, facing south into a yard.

The east range has two windows on each floor and is jettied to both the front and rear. It has flush casement windows with three and two lights on each floor. Four curved brackets are located below the jetty on the south side. The projecting gabled west crosswing features a two-light and a single-light window on the ground floor, and a three-light window on the first floor. The higher two-story west block, set back and projecting to the rear, includes a gabled porch and a canted bay to the front.

The interior of the older parts of the house retains exposed timbers. The west crosswing has close-studded walls, a clasped-purlin roof, curved wind braces, and a three-light original ground floor window that was later blocked by the east range. The crosswing originally contained two rooms on each floor, separated by a lobby and staircase, with a new hall on the lower west room, originally heated by an internal timber-framed chimney, and an unheated parlour to the east. When the crosswing was built, it served as service rooms, and the medieval hall was relegated to a kitchen. The brick renewal of the chimney in the 18th century provided a fireplace for the parlour. A blocked doorway on the first floor, featuring a four-centered arched head, formerly led to the stairwell. The parlour has close-studding and a diamond-mullioned window. The upper rooms in the jettied east range contain fragmentary wall paintings, stylistically of around 1600. One room has repeated representations of panelling, with panels enclosed in strapwork, culminating in a diamond enclosed in an oval. Another room features a large-scale repeat pattern in black on white, depicting a 16-petaled rose enclosing an 8-petaled centre. The west block contains a narrow entrance and stair hall, and four large heated rooms on two floors around a central chimney stack.