Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 15th century, with remodeling that took place in the late 16th century. It has two storeys and a three-cell form, constructed with a timber frame that is rendered and topped with clay pantiles. The building features two internal chimney stacks that have been rebuilt with red brick shafts, which are square and have a raised band and corbelled head.

The windows are three-light casement windows, replaced in the mid-20th century, with plain glass. There are four windows on the upper floor and three taller ones on the ground floor. The entrance has a plank door beneath a 20th-century gabled porch roof supported on brackets. The farmhouse is framed in five bays and was originally designed with a two-bay open hall and two storied ends.

The partition wall at the service end has been moved, combining two service rooms into one. The open truss of the hall features a cambered tie-beam supported by arched braces, with the remnants of a plain queen-post truss above. However, all the rafters were replaced in the late 17th century with a butt-purlin roof, and it is unclear if the original roof had a second tier. The surviving components show signs of being smoke-blackened.

An inserted stack between the hall and the parlour originally heated only the hall, with a second hearth added later; both ground floor hearths have timber lintels. The hall has an inserted ceiling with two deep trimmers to the main beam and unchamfered joists. The two-bay parlour is notably large, and settlement of the gable wall has resulted in the joists being raised and partially replaced. There is a blocked stair-trap in one corner, and late 17th-century rebuilding of part of the front wall included the addition of a six-light mullioned window. The room above features reversed braces at the corners.