Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. It is constructed of random rubble stone with a stone slate roof, featuring coped verges and stone stacks. The south-east front is two-storey and has four windows. A gabled porch has a moulded Tudor-arched opening with a hoodmould; the spandrels of the arch are inscribed with the initials CMB and the date 1636. The porch contains a 19th-century inner door with margin-glazing, and a 2-light casement window to the right, with two further 2-light casements to the left. The first floor of this section has four 2-light segmental-headed casement windows. A straight joint is visible to the left of the porch. The left return has two projecting gabled bays associated with a 17th-century wing, featuring 3-light ovolo-mullioned casement windows on both the ground and first floors, all with hoodmoulds and relieving arches. A recessed bay in the centre has a 20th-century casement window on the ground floor, with a string course and a relieving arch over the window. The first floor of this bay has a 3-light mullioned casement window with a gable above. A Tudor-arched doorway to the left leads into a passage that runs through to a rear courtyard. The left gable end of the wing has a 3-light ovolo-mullioned casement window to the first floor. The rear of the 17th-century wing has a planked door, a door with two panels, and a 2-light ovolo-mullioned first-floor casement window. The rear of the main range includes a lean-to pantiled verandah with a 20th-century door with a chamfered surround. A ribbed door within a chamfered case is positioned to the right, along with a 20th-century casement window on the first floor.

The interior includes very deeply chamfered beams with stepped stops, and a large open fireplace in the room to the left of the entrance. The room above this has a fine fireplace with a Tudor-arched surround and a cornice featuring three projecting sections of entablature. There is considerable good 17th-century joinery throughout, including doors with strapwork panels in ovolo-moulded surrounds, particularly at the west end of the wing, as well as doors with two recessed panels and some plank and muntin partitions. A staircase is located in the west of the two projecting bays. A blocked open fireplace is present in what was originally the 'hall.' The farmhouse has been continuously occupied by the same family, the Baily family, since the 17th century.