Farmstead record COK 059 - Farmstead: Upper Church Farm

Upper Church Farm is a farmstead visible on the 1st Ed Os Map. The farmstead is laid out in a loose courtyard plan. The farmhouse is detached and set away from the yard. The farmstead sits alongside a public road in a loose farmstead cluster. This farmstead survives intact with conversion for residential use. (S2-5)

A historic buildings survey was carried out for a 16th C farmhouse prior to a planning application to extend the property. The house is a small but high quality and high status timber-framed jettied hall which was potentially a pre-reformation priests house. Its original form was a central hall with a cross passage and twin service rooms. In the 17th C a parlour extension was added and in the 19th C the service wing was replaced with a new range of buildings. The house contains a number of oriel and mullioned windows (S1).

Recorded as part of the Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project. This is a purely desk-based study and no site visits were undertaken. These records are not intended to be a definitive assessment of these buildings. Dating reflects their presence at a point in time on historic maps and there is potential for earlier origins to buildings and farmsteads. This project highlights a potential need for a more in depth field study of farmstead to gather more specific age data.