College Farmhouse

College Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 15th and 16th centuries, with 19th-century alterations. It is principally timber framed, with rendered elevations, exposed timber framing to the rear, brick casing to the front ground floor and gable returns. The house has a T-plan with three cells, incorporating an earlier cross wing to the rear and a stair bay. It is two storeys high and was formerly partly jettied. The front features three 3-light windows with diamond-paned leaded glass. An elliptical-headed doorway has a moulded arch and a plank and muntin door. A massive 16th-century stack, featuring four octagonal shafts with moulded bases and oversailing caps, is present; an internal stack is located within the left-hand gable, with two octagonal shafts. The rear of the house has a timber-framed stair bay with a blocked window, the plaster inscribed "WIK 177" (said in 1947 to date to 1771). The remains of a first-floor oriel window are visible over the parlour.

Inside, the left-hand service bay has plain brackets to the jetty and a blocked 4-light ovolo mullion window with saddle bars. There are chamfered cross beams with bar stops. The parlour contains a 4-centre arched brick fireplace with a hollow chamfered arris, very deep and narrow roll and cavetto moulded cross beams, and a roll moulded cornice. A 2-panel door with original hinges is also present. First-floor rooms over the service bay display roll-moulded beams with run-out stops, a blocked window to the side of a rear loft door, and a post and tie beam with stepped stops. A chamber above the hall has an elliptical arched brick fireplace. Other interior features include paneling with carpenters’ mitres, a boarded door with strap hinges, and an intact newel stair with a circular newel post, landing balustrade with turned balusters, and a ball finial to the newel. A 17th-century leaded light with original fittings is also present.

The roof remains of a simple unmoulded crown post roof are present at the rear of the cross wing, while the hall roof has some reused smoke blackened timbers. The service end has a clasped purlin roof, and the parlour a clasped and butt purlin roof. The property was granted to Eton College in the mid-16th century, originating from properties of Cardinal Wolsey.