Church House

SK 32 NE PARISH OF MELBOURNE MAIN STREET, KINGS 3/125 NEWTON 10.11.67 (South Side) Church House, Nos 82 and 82A GV II House, now two houses. Early C18 with C20 alterations and additions to rear. Rubble stone with stone dressings, flush quoins and chamfered plinth, painted to front elevation. Steeply pitched plain tile roof with stone coped gables on plain kneelers and central brick ridge stack, plus coved eaves cornice. Two storeys plus basement and garrets, three bays with lobby entrance plan. Basement has 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows, both now partly blocked, to either side of three semi-circular stone steps with moulded nosings. These lead up to a tall moulded doorcase with a raised keystone, cavetto moulded pediment and C20 half-glazed panelled door with a raised and fielded panelled overdoor. To either side there are C20 glazing bar top hung casements in similar moulded surrounds with cavetto moulded pediments and raised keystones. Above there are two similar windows in moulded surrounds with pediments but without keystones and between a central blocked pedimented opening with a plain raised surround. Rear elevation has double gables and similar pedimented windows, also with C20 additions. Interior has panelled doors, ovolo moulded ceiling beams and the original winder staircase to the back of the central stack.

Listing NGR: SK3902226203