Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a house, now functioning as a farmhouse, that dates back to the early 16th century and has undergone later alterations. It is timber-framed and sits on a limestone rubble plinth, featuring close studding with a middle rail, jettied gable ends with arch-bracing and tension-bracing. The right side wall is rendered and has herringbone timber framing in the gable. The roof is gabled and covered with stone slates, with a ridge stack made of stone and finished in 17th and 18th century brick, while the right end stack is finished in 20th century brick.

The house has a 3-unit through-passage plan, is two storeys high with an attic, and has a four-window range. The entrance features a 16th century ribbed plank door with iron fittings set in a chamfered arched surround, alongside a blocked door with an arched head in the left bay. The windows include 20th century two-light casements, a mid-19th century horizontal sliding sash above a blocked five-light wood-mullioned window to the right of the door, and gabled roof dormers with three-light casements. At the rear, there is a late 19th century outshut that adjoins an early 16th century jettied porch, which has a doorway with a moulded architrave and a hollow-chamfered wood-mullioned four-light window to the side. The inner door is a 16th century ribbed plank door with iron fittings, set in a moulded arched architrave with sunk spandrels.

To the right of the front, there is a one-storey right-angle service range that has been much altered in the 20th century. Inside, the ground floor features moulded beams, except for a stop-chamfered beam to the right. There is part of a panelled screens passage to the left of the entry, with heavy moulded muntins and rail. The central room has moulded stone jambs to the fireplace. The roof has jowled posts supporting an eight-bay collar-truss structure with butt purlins and some arched windbraces. A stop-chamfered lintel with orange-ochre banding suggests the location of a possible former oriel in the rear wall. The ground and first-floor rooms to the left feature late 17th century panelling and cornices. This house is an early example of a two-storey dwelling, and the painted beam is a rare survival, similar to those found at Yelford Manor.