College Farmhouse

College Farmhouse, founded and built around 1350, with subsequent alterations and additions by Sir Thomas and John de Shardelow, is now a private house. The building is constructed from flint, brick, and stone, with pantiled roofs. Originally rectangular in plan, it has a T-shaped layout and a facade dated to the 18th century. It stands on a 18th-century brick plinth. The main entrance is located on the right-hand side, framed by a pilastered doorcase with a broken pediment. There are two sash windows with glazing bars to the right, dated 1804. To the left are two renewed casements, and five first-floor casements inserted in 1800. The roofline has been raised, and the remains of a two-light transomed diamond window with cinque-foil cusping are visible, now blocked. Three renewed 19th-century casements are situated close to the façade to the left. A gabled roof features a panelled, off-centre ridge stack of approximately 1700, along with internal gable end stacks. Rebuilding of the south wall likely truncated an earlier open hall. The rear of the building includes a single cinquefoiled lancet window on the ground floor, and the upper portion of the aforementioned diamond window is visible above the 1975-installed door. The roof incorporates two attic lights. A cross wing, likely dating to the late 17th century, was remodelled in the late 18th century, with a French window and upper casement added in 1975. The remains of a 17th-century mullioned window are visible in the centre, alongside a 19th-century sash window. On the east wall, there is evidence of tumbling in the gable. A late 18th-century sash window with glazing bars is present on the first floor, with a copy installed below in 1975. The north front has a gault brick porch with iron twist columns (not currently in situ) and a pantiled roof. The north gable wall is rendered to the first floor, featuring a round-headed lancet on the left and a blocked trefoil lancet on the right, both dating to around 1350.

Inside, a fine late 16th-century dining room is distinguished by square panelling, divided by single Ionic pilasters that rest on palmette consoles, a continuous fluted frieze, and a fireplace with an overmantel flanked by Ionic pilasters displaying the arms of Futter impaling Bacon. The ceiling features crossed beams with three orders of rolls, and minor beams with two rolls. A mid-16th-century doorway to the drawing room, constructed of stone with a four-centred arch containing continuous double roll mouldings, remains. The drawing room represents an altered original hall. Dado and south wall panelling dates to 1804. An east room within the cross wing contains two late 17th-century beams with ogee stops.