Church Farmhouse Museum

Church Farmhouse Museum is a handsome Grade 2* listed building dating from the mid- seventeenth century. It is set in a garden, which is all that remains of the original farm. The house frontage has an attractive, mellow appearance and the central chimney stack is a fine example of decorative brickwork. The three gables at the front and rear are a distinctive feature. The house is part of what remains of the old village of Hendon, as mentioned in the Domesday book. It is close to St Mary's Church and is now within a conservation area, just a few hundred yards from the A41 (Watford Way).

Hendon Borough Council purchased Church Farmhouse, restored it and opened it as a museum in 1955. It is furnished as a Middlesex farm house and is the main repository for local artefacts from an area stretching from Edgware to Hampstead.

Church Farmhouse now has three furnished, period rooms. The kitchen, set about 1820, has 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, including sugar cutters and a knife cleaner. 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 Windsor chairs. This room contains oak panelling dating from the late seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, which once formed a corridor between the stairs and the bedroom of the first floor. Each December, the museum's 1850s dining room is decorated for a Victorian Christmas.

Church Farmhouse Museum has a small shop, selling local history publications, cards and toys.

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