Church Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Church Farm House

WRENN ID
quiet-postern-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Church Farm House is a farmhouse with a core dating to the 17th century, with later additions. The construction is primarily carstone with brick dressings, and the roof has been rebuilt with renewed pantiles and a raised gable parapet. The overall shape is T-shaped, with lower additions to the west of the original crosswing. The house is two storeys high with attics.

The east facade features a wide single bay to the left and a crosswing to the right. The left bay is of roughly coursed galletted carstone, with a brick capped plinth, brick quoins, and an internal stack on the south end. Ground floor windows are late 20th-century French windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has one blocked rectangular opening and an inserted window with glazing bars to the right. The forward wing to the right has a gable facing east, constructed of small carstone. It includes an enlarged 2-light casement to the ground floor with glazing bars, a sash window to the first floor, and a small 2-light attic window with pintle hinges, a chamfered brick surround and a square hood mould.

The south return incorporates some flint in the upper walls, alongside the galletted carstone, and displays two small blocked lights to the ground floor and a 20th-century window within a 17th-century surround on the first floor. The north return of the crosswing has three bays, including an attached porch and loggia of no particular interest. The ground floor has a late 19th-century 3-light casement, while the first floor has three openings: one blocked to the left, renewed in the centre, and a double-leaded glazed casement with pintle hinges to the right.

The rear of the main range mirrors the east facade, with two flush sashes each with glazing bars in the upper parts, and a lean-to porch added in 1985. The south return of the crosswing includes a blocked attic window and a casement with glazing bars.

The west gable of the crosswing is attached to a lower wing in three parts. The south facade of this wing has a lower two-storey single bay attached, constructed with a sawtooth cornice, pantiles, clunch and brick headers, and a 20th-century 3-light casement to the ground floor. A blocked doorway is located to the left. The first floor has a flush sash with glazing bars, and a blocked attic window to the south.

An attached lower range, of 1½ storeys and one bay plus an older chimney bay, is constructed of brick headers and varied stone, with the upper part galletted and corrugated tiles. The chimney bay has a vertical join and is composed of carstone rubble in the lower part, raised flint and brick headers in the upper part. The gable of the chimney bay to the south has carstone rubble, a steep gable of single storey raised to 1½ storeys (with a subsequent reduction in roof height and a rendered stack), and a stone plaque dated 1779.

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