Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the mid 16th century with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with wings at the front and rear made of plastered red brick. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, with the main range having a hipped roof on the right side. There are internal and gable chimneys made of red brick. The windows are 20th-century casements with leaded lights, and there are hipped, plain-tiled bay windows at the ground floor. A one-storey entrance porch, also plain-tiled, has a boarded door. Inside, there is a large open fireplace in the hall, likely backing against the cross-passage. The central open truss features a steeply cambered arch-braced tie-beam, and the roof has coupled rafters. There are blocked diamond-mullion windows, and the original structure is primarily made of elm timber. A rear one-storey extension, which likely served as a kitchen or brewhouse, was added in the late 18th century. The farmhouse was restored around 1980 after a period of dereliction.