Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a house that likely represents the remaining wing of a larger structure, dating from the late 17th century and remodeled in the 18th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with freestone dressings and features a steeply-pitched Welsh slate roof with stone-coped gable ends. The house has a stone gable-end stack with a short ashlar shaft, cap, and string course.

The building has a rectangular plan, with a room at the south end separated from the rest of the house by a partition wall that does not include a connecting doorway, although there is an external doorway at the front. The central bay is divided into front and back rooms, and there is an integral single-storey outshut at the north end, likely resulting from partial demolition and possibly containing unheated service rooms.

The exterior is two storeys high, featuring a four-bay west front with two-light cyma-moulded stone mullion window frames that lack hoodmoulds, and the first floor is adorned with small gables above. To the left and right are blocked stone segmental arch doorways with small keystones. The left bay includes an integral lean-to outshut with a similar two-light stone mullion window. The rear of the house has similar windows along with one later wooden casement.

The interior, as observed from the first-floor west front window, showcases a tenoned-purlin roof structure. Church Farmhouse is reputed to be the surviving wing of the residence of the Hodges family, who were the main landowners in the area and had coal mining interests on the estate.