Church Gate Farmhouse And Outbuildings Immediately To North

Church Gate Farmhouse and the outbuildings immediately to the north are a farmhouse dating from around the early 16th century, with some modifications possibly from the 17th century. The farmhouse features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, with brick stacks at each end and one axial stack on a rubble base. The layout consists of a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end to the right. Originally, the hall was heated by a central hearth, but a stack was later inserted into the passage, and the hall was floored at that time. At the rear of the higher end of the hall, there are remains of a newel stair, possibly with a garderobe beside it.

The exterior is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical three-window front. The left side features 19th-century small-paned two and three-light casements, except for a 20th-century window on the ground floor left. To the right of the porch, there are also 20th-century three-light casements. The wall in front of the hall projects slightly, and there is a late 18th or 19th-century open-fronted porch to the right of centre, with a thatch roof extending over it and a 20th-century plank door behind. To the left of the passage doorway at the rear is a late 18th-century square-section wooden mullion window.

Inside, the hall fireplace has a chamfered wooden lintel and granite jambs, and the ceiling beam is chamfered with indistinct stops. The passage features chamfered joists, some of which are hollow chamfered with convex stops. The roof over the hall is a raised cruck structure with mortices for a collar and threaded purlins, and while the apex is not visible, it is likely smoke-blackened. A similar cruck is found in the partition to the inner room, and one blackened timber survives over the passage, likely reused. The lower end has a later roof structure.

The outbuilding immediately to the north of the farmhouse is a single storey with a corrugated iron roof and features a 17th-century chamfered wooden doorframe to the left. This farmhouse and its outbuildings are unspoilt and very picturesque, forming an attractive and traditional group with the nearby church and cross.