Church Farmhouse Museum

Church Farmhouse Museum is a handsome Grade II listed building dating from the mid-seventeenth century. Its three furnished period rooms include the kitchen, set about 1820, with a huge open fireplace containing a clockwork spit jack, a chimney crane and bread oven. A splendid refectory table and oak dresser show off over a hundred Victorian kitchen utensils. In the scullery the display of laundry equipment includes washing dollies, flat irons and a linen press. The dining room is furnished as it would have been in the 1850s, with a fine oval dining table and the Windsor chairs. This room contains oak panelling dating from the late seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The museum offers a free outreach programme for local schools. It also presents reminiscence sessions for old people’s homes and day centres, and talks to local societies and other groups may be arranged. It has a small shop, selling local history publications, cards and toys.