Church Farm

Church Farm is a farmhouse that has been converted into a University Staff Club. It dates from the early and later 17th century, with a core from the 16th century and later alterations. The building features a mix of flint rubble and timber framing, topped with a rendered hipped pantile roof and a three-shafted red brick chimney.

The T-plan structure has its entrance front positioned at right angles to the street, presenting a two-storey, three-window range. The central door, which has six raised and fielded panels, is topped by an overlight with radial glazing bars, and is flanked by fluted pilasters, a fluted frieze, and a small hood. To the right and left of the door are tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors, with a smaller window above the door, all featuring glazing bar sashes in flush-fronted wooden frames. The building is adorned with a modillion cornice.

To the left, there is a projecting gable-fronted wing that includes one first-floor window at the end of a five-window range facing the churchyard. The left side of the building features early 17th-century elements near the axial stack, while the right side shows later 17th-century work. The first floor has a jetty above the flint rubble ground floor, which includes mullioned and transomed casements with red brick dressings, and there are traces of jambs for earlier windows. An attic dormer with a segmental head is also present.

The later 17th-century north range is concealed behind a 19th-century facade. Inside, the south range displays 17th-century stencil decoration on the south studs and the corresponding wallplate of the north wall, featuring a frieze of alternating tripartite vineleaf and trefoil designs on a black base. The studs are decorated in polychrome with balusters and urns, some with godrooned designs and others with floral sprigs. A 17th-century door with rebated and flanking fielded panels leads to a 17th-century winder stair that ascends to the roof. The roof structure consists of double butt purlins, with first-floor and attic duck nest grates. The north range also has a double butt purlin roof, and features a quartered column on a pedestal with rectilinear strapwork decoration incorporated into the attic partition.