London is one of the greatest tourist destinations of the world. Church Farmhouse Museum is a handsome Grade 11* listed building dating from the mid- seventeenth century and has regular exhibitions throughout the year. The Church Farmhouse is located at Greyhound Hill, Hendon.2010 is the 350th anniversary of Church Farm, the oldest surviving house in Hendon, and now London Borough of Barnet’s museum. Gerrard Roots is the Curator of the Museum. The Museum will be marking the anniversary with an exhibition tracing the long and fascinating history of the house, from its origins as the centre of an extensive hay and dairy farm to its present day role as the museum for London Borough of Barnet. London Tours allows you to see some of the very best London tourist attractions that has been on top of the chart of world tourism map. 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 the 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.

 

Church Farm is surrounded by a small garden, which is accessible by the public even outside Museum opening hours. To the rear of the Museum are C19 milestones and mileposts taken from other parts of the Borough, and set in the grass is a Victorian tyring-platform (used in the construction of cartwheels), once used at the premises of the still-extant Hendon firm of Hammond’s Coachbuilders. The newest feature of the garden is a maze, installed in 2006. A turf maze, constructed of nearly a thousand bricks marking out pathways in the grass, it is the only public maze in Barnet Borough. The maze, which is particularly enjoyed by children. There are many things to do with children also. Church Farmhouse Museum usually has two exhibitions running at the same time. One in the main rooms and the smaller display in the Dunlop Room. The Church Farmhouse Museum organizes free events and exhibitions. There is attraction for children also like  the Teddy Bear Trail, which is  for children of all ages and the young at heart. 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. Children visiting are invited to draw or paint the Museum, and we shall display their pictures during the Summer. Church Farmhouse Museum has a small shop, selling local history publications, cards and toys

 

 

Opening Times

Monday to Thursday 10 - 1 and 2 - 5

Friday Closed

Saturday 10 - 1 and 2 - 5.30

Sunday 2 - 5.30