Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a house that was formerly a school, dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond, with the front rendered and featuring a centerpiece of Flemish bond brick. The rear wing is a combination of rendered brick and timber framing. The roof is covered with plain tiles, has gabled ends, and includes brick dentil eaves courses. There are brick stacks at the gable ends.

The building has a two-room plan, with a larger room on the left serving as a hall and a smaller parlour on the right, both heated by fireplaces at the gable ends. Access is through the front of the hall, and there is a dog-leg staircase at the rear of the parlour, leading to a shallow unheated two-storey wing behind.

The exterior features one storey and an attic, with a symmetrical three-bay front. It has broad rendered corner pilasters and a slightly advanced gabled brick bay at the center, which contains an 18th-century six-panel door framed with heavy bead-moulding and supported by shaped canopy brackets. Above the door is a two-light attic casement with a triangular head in the gable, and there are 20th-century three-light windows to the left and right in segmental arch openings. The rear has two small ground floor windows and a timber-framed gable wing on the left that jetties out on the first floor.

Inside, there are various 18th-century panelled and plank doors. The left room features a large unchamfered cross-beam and unchamfered joists, with a fireplace that has been partly rebuilt and a plaster cove above it. There are two large oak doorframes in the central partition. The right room has an unchamfered axial beam and joists, along with an altered fireplace. The early 18th-century dog-leg staircase has rectangular balusters, square newels, and a moulded handrail. The roof structure consists of closed trusses with queen-posts, a high collar, and king-posts above.

It is noted that the building is said to have been a charity school, possibly endowed by John Addenbrook, who was the rector of Upper Sapey from 1683 to 1727.