Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in two or three stages from the mid-16th century to the early 17th century. It features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan, with the parlour cell designed in a cross-wing form. The building has two storeys, with the parlour cell also having an attic. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with a concrete tiled roof. There is a central 17th-century chimney made of red brick, which was recapped in the 19th century, and another 19th-century chimney located to the right.

A mid-20th-century lean-to entrance porch has been added, featuring a boarded and battened door from the same period. The service cell at the east end was adapted in the 17th century from a 16th-century hall and shows evidence of a diamond-mullioned window, although it has been significantly altered since then. The later hall has a first-floor structure typical of the late 16th century, with jewelled chamfer stops on the binding beam, which is supported by roll-moulded jowls, and good chamfered joists.

The early 17th-century parlour wing is of high quality, consisting of three bays with closely spaced studwork and blocked ovolo-moulded windows. A main beam features sunk ogee mouldings, and in the rear bay, there is a well-crafted newel staircase with balustrading at the top. The roof has a two-tier butt-purlin structure. Inside, there is a wide arched fireplace in the hall, which backs onto a smaller fireplace in the parlour. The main range was heightened and reroofed in the 17th century.