Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from around 1550 to 1570. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with 20th-century cable-pargetting in large panels. The roof is thatched and includes one eyebrow dormer. There is a central 17th-century chimney made of red brick. The windows are mainly 20th-century small-pane casements, but several 16th-century diamond-mullioned windows are also visible and glazed. A mid-20th-century gabled entrance porch with a pair of framed and boarded doors adds to the façade.

The framing is unusually complete and of above-average quality, although it is unmoulded. It features good close-studwork and chamfered floor joists in the hall and parlour, while the service cell has unchamfered joists and was formerly divided by a stud partition. The roof has a good clasped-purlin structure with reduced principal rafters and cranked windbraces. Inside, there is a large open fireplace in the hall, which has a lintel that has been reused from a timber-framed chimney, possibly predating the current one.