Church House 20 Yards East Of The Church Of St Catherine

Church House, located 20 yards east of the Church of St Catherine, is a former schoolroom and schoolhouse built around 1865. It features sandstone ashlar dressings and rubble, with brick construction and hipped slate roofs, along with brick and sandstone stacks. The building has a rectangular plan and is two storeys tall with an attic, facing east.

The east elevation includes a symmetrical arrangement of windows: a single light to the left gable front, a sexfoil window above the central entrance, and a three-light mullioned window to the right. The left ground floor window has a single light and is accompanied by a weathered buttress at the corner. The right side features a full-height canted bay with a hipped roof, lacking angle windows, and a three-light mullioned window with a single transom and relieving arch on the ground floor. The neo-Romanesque center is marked by one column with a leaved capital that separates two trefoiled heads. Below the right trefoil is a square-headed entrance doorway with rounded shoulders; the door has three rows of three panels, with the top three glazed in a lancet style. The left trefoil leads to stairs rising to the south, which access a panelled door to the schoolroom.

The south elevation displays relieving arches above two storeys of mullioned windows, with the upper windows featuring staggered mullions. There is an entrance to the right under a chamfered and pointed arch. Inside the schoolroom, the roof has two bays with a collar truss, angle struts from the king-strut above the collar, and principals supported by braces. The friezes at wall-plate level are decorated with painted panels depicting animals, flowers, and birds, including a monkey and goats. The building is prominently visible from the opposite bank of the river to the east and south, contributing significantly to the setting of the Church of St Catherine.