Church Farmhouse

Church Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse, with alterations and extensions from the 17th century and a refronting in the 18th century. It is now a detached house. The building is timber-framed, rebuilt in rubble stone, and has a tiled roof, with gable end brick stacks. The plan is L-shaped, featuring a parlour wing at the south end. The west front is two storeys high, with three windows. A six-panelled door, set within an ovolo-moulded architrave with a flat stone hood on brackets, is located to the right of centre. To the left of the door is a 4-light 18th-century mullioned casement, and to the right, a single-light and a 20th-century two-light mullioned casement, the latter inserted into a former doorway. The first floor has two 3-light and one 2-light casements. The gable end of the mid-17th-century rubble stone parlour wing to the right has an original 4-light wooden ovolo-mullioned casement on the ground floor, a 3-light casement on the first floor, and a 3-light wooden attic casement, with a coped verge and saddlestone. The right return has 20th-century French windows and leaded casements, with two 2-light wooden casements to the first floor. The left return features a single-storey shed with a hipped pantiled roof. The rear of the parlour wing includes a 2-light chamfered mullioned wooden casement on both ground and first floors. The main range to the right has a short timber-framed gabled wing with 2-light and 3-light casements, and a 19th-century lean-to extension with a slate roof is situated to the right.

Inside, the main range has timber-framed partitions, deep chamfered beams with stepped stops, a blocked open fireplace with a chamfered lintel, planked doors with strap hinges, and a main post marking the end of the original 2-bay range on the east wall. An added bay between the original range and the parlour wing features ovolo-moulded doorcases with stops and a leaded window, now on the internal rear wall. Timber framing with curved bracing is exposed on the inside of the rear wall on the first floor. The original range has a 2-bay collar and tie-beam roof, with cambered collars, plus a small open fireplace in the north bedroom. The 17th-century parlour wing has a moulded stone Tudor-arched fireplace with a moulded cornice, a deep chamfered ceiling beam, and a smaller Tudor-arched fireplace on the first floor. It also features a 2-bay collar and tie-beam roof with chamfered purlins. The house has undergone at least five phases of development—originally two 16th-century timber-framed bays, extended by one bay and a short wing to the east, and later by the parlour wing to the south, with the main range’s rubble stone rebuild and eaves raising, likely occurring during the 18th century.