Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-16th century, with a cross wing added in the early 17th century, creating a T-shaped form. The building is timber-framed and rendered, featuring pantiled roofs, with part of the cross wing having a colour-washed brick facing. It has two internal chimney stacks, one of which is a later addition. The windows are mainly casements, with several replaced in the late 20th century, and there is a late 20th-century glazed entrance porch.

The main range has three bays, divided into a one-bay room and a two-bay room, which may represent the original house. Inside, the ceilings feature deep main beams and plain joists, with reversed, slightly cranked braces at the corners of the frame. There is a blocked four-light diamond mullioned window on the upper floor, with the mullions still in place. The roof has clasped purlins, windbraces, and intermediate collars between the trusses.

The cross wing consists of five bays, including a chimney bay, and features ovolo-moulding on the main beams, along with scroll-stops and an additional groove on the beams and joists. The two bays to the west of the stack have an unusual original division into a one-and-a-half bay room with a small half-bay room adjoining, a layout that is also repeated on the upper floor. Currently, there is a lobby entrance against the stack, but there may have been a cross-entry in the half-bay of the larger room. One of the posts supporting the main beam has a roll-moulding at the head and a small carved cresting. The room to the east of the stack features a fine ledged and battened door with moulding on the planks. The upper ceilings in this range are original. The roof has two rows of unstepped butt purlins and cambered collars, with irregularly sized bays, and there appears to have been a dormer on the north slope of the roof.