NHER 21236 (Building record) - Church Farmhouse and barn, School Lane

Church Farmhouse.

English Heritage Listing 1983:
House probably 16th century with 17th to 18th century additions. Part timber-frame and part brick. Timber frame is original with projecting wings to front and rear added 17th century. Side and rear extensions 18th century. 17th century rear wing heightened and lean-to added also 18th century. Two storeys and attics. 18th century windows but
four surviving 17th century hoodmoulds to the 17th century wings.

Barn is 17th century, weatherboarded and under built timber frame, thatched. Three bays. Collars, arch-braced tiebeams, butt purlins.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 18 March 1985.

Summer 2017
Straight braces to ties beams of which on is of soft wood. Straight braces also to corner posts. Queen struts to lower purlins. Early to mid 17th century. Adjoining brick stable with hay loft at north gable-end, with tack room and pitching holes in floor. Early 19th century. These imediately to east of farmhouse with those to north west now in separate ownership.
Farmhouse. Started life as a long timber-framed lobby entrance house with off-centre axial stack in which one hearth survives with timber bressumer with traces of painted brick. Blocked-up former range to other side. Original stair against stack from first floor to attic survives. The timber frame to the west side of the stack replaced with brick work and extended to the north in the 18th century. The roof stucture is of butt purlins with tapered tenons and diagonal pegging. 17th-century outshut to north side of west half roughly matching other forming a 'U' plan. Another 17th-century outshut of English bond brick work to south of western half. This has a very tall gable parapet and a truncated gable indicating its reduction in height. However, the roof structure is contemporary suggesting the possiblity that the roof structure is re-used in the reduced building. In the 'U' formed by the north wings a new staircase oushut was built in the early 19th century. The stair has open string and stick balusters.
S.Heywood (HES). 29th August 2017.