Building record 0406700000 - CHURCH FARMHOUSE, 13 CHURCH END

Dimensions - Length 39m, Width 9m.
Upper storey originally 1 large room with an open roof - may have been Church House (B2).
The Church Farmhouse is a long building of two storeys facing North, partly timber-framed, partly of brick and stone rubble. The roofs are tiled. The Western half was probably built in the C15th, a small staircase wing was added at the rear in the late C16th or early C17th, and the Eastern half was added in the C18th. An addition made at the SW corner of the original block also dates to this time. One-storeyed additions were built at the East end and rear in the C19th. The plan of the older part of the house was apparently rectangular. At each end of the front, the upper storey projected, but has been underbuilt at the East end. The walls are timber-framed and covered with plaster. The East half of the house is brick. Condition - Good.(B1).
Grade II+. House. C15 with C16 alterations, C17 staircase wing and C19 rear additions. Timber framed with colourwashed plastered infill. Colourwashed rubble west elevation, rear mostly colourwashed render, staircase wing and addition to its west colourwashed brick. Old tile roof, hipped to west. Medieval hall house of Wealden type with jettied cross wings. Left hand door and 3-light leaded casement. To ground floor of centre leaded 2-light C16 moulded mullioned casements flank later 4-light window. Original entrance to screens passage under right hand jetty, then 3-light leaded casement. Upper floor of crosswings with 3-light leaded casements and close-studding. Centre with coved eaves to oversailing wall plate and brackets. 3-light leaded C17 oriel window has moulded cill and cut brackets. Stack backing onto cross passage. At rear canted oriel on columns with barred sash windows. Interior: Centre hall truss with arch braces. Chamfered and stopped spine beams. Chamfered main fireplace beam. In roof of left hand crosswing is wall painting, mid C16 with Tudor roses, fleur-de-lys separated by painted timbers. Staircase with roughly moulded C17 newel post. RCHM I. 179. MON.3 (B5).