Church House

Church House is an office building that may date from around 1870. It features red and yellow brick and terracotta with a red tiled roof. The structure is three storeys tall with an attic and consists of twelve bays, with the first six bays curving back towards Paradise Street. The building has a blue brick base, a red ground floor with a frieze above, and a yellow first floor also with a frieze. The second floor is red with yellow architraves. The ground floor has rectangular windows, although the last two bays have been altered. The eighth and ninth bays feature paired round-headed architraves, with a door on the left and a window on the right. Terracotta decorations adorn the pilasters, arches, and consoled frieze. The windows are casements with leaded upper lights, while the paired windows on the first floor are sashed, some retaining their original leaded lights. The eighth and ninth bays have red pilasters and round hoods over the windows, and there is an oriel window in the first bay. The second floor has paired round-headed windows with decorated attached columns, which continue around the corner, interspersed with red brick blind windows. The end three bays feature continuous eight-light windows with small-paned casements. The building is topped with a cornice and a shaped gable on the first bay, while the eighth and ninth bays have Dutch gables with long, narrow windows and fluted pilasters supporting obelisks. Other dormers are wooden with weather-boarded gables.