Church Farmhouse

URCHFONT HIGH STREET SU 0357 (north side) 10/220 Church Farmhouse II Farmhouse, now house. C15, and early C18, and C19. Colourwashed English bond brick with left bay timber framed. Thatched roof. Single storey and upper floor, four bays. Originally a 3-bay minimum open hall house, of which only the left bay survives extensive rebuilding and heightening in C18, and right extension in C19. Central living room in former hall incorporates second bay. Early C19 stone bay with brick quoins added to right, incorporating passage with entrance, a 4-panelled door, half glazed, with rustic porch. Two and 3-light late C19-early C20 windows and 3 paned flush dormers. Three flush dormers to rear. Three brick stacks. Single storey C20 flat roofed addition along whole of rear. Interior: Three cruck framed trusses of original structure survive, only the left surviving to apex, variant of type C with yoke trenched in and twice pegged carrying diagonal ridge clasped between unconnected tops of crucks. Wattle and daub infilling, smoke blackened to hall side. Living room has bar chamfer stops to crossed beams, and bressumer in front of inserted brick stack, perhaps part of timber framed predecessor.

Listing NGR: SU0396857214