Church Farm Cottage Church Farm House

Church Farm Cottage and Church Farm House are two dwellings of around 1500, significantly altered in the early 17th century, with further extensions in the 19th century and alterations in the 20th. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with flint, clay lump, and red brick additions. It has steeply pitched machine pantiled roofs. The original layout comprised five bays, with a three-cell plan including a narrow smoke bay and cross passage bay; these bays have continuous jetties at the front and upper end.

The ground floor entrance is through an architraved doorway in the original cross passage. A hall and parlour to the left have 15-pane bow windows. The service bay to the right has a three-light casement. The front jetty projects slightly less far in the largely rebuilt cross passage and service bays. A staircase descends to a lower level in the service bay, supported by two curved brackets. The first floor has 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements. The roof is lower over the cross passage and service bays. An axial ridge stack, with three conjoined hexagonal shafts, is located between the hall and parlour within the original smoke bay. The left return displays a brattished corner post and exposed plates, with a small bracket to the rear. The right, or service, end has an early 17th-century external stack and a 19th-century outbuilding, along with a 20th-century addition with its own entrance.

At the rear is a lobby entrance to the main range, with 2-light casements. Behind the service bay is a two-bay, two-storey 17th-century dairy, with exposed plates and purlins visible in the brick-cased rear gable end. Behind the cross passage bay is a two-storey 19th-century clay lump addition with an internal end stack and an entrance in a brick-cased gable end.

Internally, the hall features close studding of large scantling, an axial binding beam, and stop-chamfered cross axial beams with jowled storey posts; the parlour has an 18th-century chamfered segmental-headed fireplace, and the service end has an ovolo moulded fireplace bressumer, along with an axial binding beam. On the first floor, arched braces support stop-chamfered cambered tie beams, with mortices for crown posts and tension braces. The parlour chamber wall has a large sill for an original oriel window, and ovolo moulded cross axial binding beams. The roof is an early 17th-century double butt-purlin design, with cambered collars and upper wind braces. The dairy wing features close studding with a mid-rail and traces of 3 and 4-light diamond mullioned windows.