Church Cottages

Church Cottages, originally built as a school and six almshouses in 1699, now consists of four almshouses. The school was rebuilt in 1832 and altered in 1927. It was constructed by Thomas Huntbach the younger, who died in 1712, of Shustoke Hall. The building is made of sandstone rubble and features a steeply pitched plain-tiled roof with a moulded eaves cornice and parapet gable ends. The parapet at the south end and the wall at that end have been rebuilt. There are two red brick ridge stacks above the roof. The structure is a single north-south range, originally with three almshouses on each side, each containing one room on the ground floor and another in the attic. It is one storey with an attic and has three 19th-century gable dormers. Each almshouse features a casement window in an original splayed sandstone surround with a chamfered mullion. The adjacent doorways have oak lintels, although the doorways on the west elevation are now blocked. On the south gable end, there is a tablet with an inscription and the date, reset in new brickwork from the school.