Old Church House

The Old Church House is a former parish church dating from the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations made around 1300, the 14th century, and a substantial restoration in the 19th century, culminating in a conversion to a dwelling around 1981. The building’s origins are in a 12th-century south wall of the nave, followed by a chancel constructed around 1300, a north chapel likely of 14th-century origin, and a 14th-century south porch. A 14th-century west tower was demolished in the late 20th century and replaced with full-height flint-faced buttresses. The construction is mainly puddingstone and rubble, with limestone dressings, and a red plain tiled roof featuring pierced ridge tiles, stone parapet verges, and a stone cross finial to the nave gable. A moulded stone eaves cornice runs around the building and a 20th-century chimney stack is located to the northwest of the chancel.

The chancel’s east wall has three chamfered stone graduated lancet windows, with stone quoins. The north chapel features a buttress to the south angle, a 20th-century glazed door with three trefoiled lights above, a moulded band, and a curved triangular light to the gable with tracery. A stone chimney stack is positioned to the south. The chancel’s south wall contains two 14th-century trefoiled windows under two-centred arches, with a former doorway, circa 1300, now blocked at the base to create a two-centred arched window. A circa 1300 window is topped with a triangular head and contains two trefoiled lights with a trefoil above. The north wall of the chancel has three 14th-century lights, similar to the two southern trefoiled windows, and a 20th-century chamfered brick doorway. The nave’s south wall is buttressed to the east. The eastern segmental headed window has two ogee lights with a quatrefoil above, while the western window is smaller and similar. A 12th-century round-headed light of Roman brick is located to the east of a 19th-century two-centred arched doorway. The north chapel’s north wall features a central buttress, an eastern trefoiled ogee two-light window with a label above, a similar window to the west wall, and a western three-light trefoiled ogee window, also with a label. The west wall of the nave, dating to circa 1981, is glazed with mullions to both ground and first floors. The 14th-century south porch has a roof of alternating ogee and straight rafters to collars, a two-centered arched doorway, a flint wall base, and mullions to the returns. Graffiti reading "William Frostick 1570" is visible on the west cill.

Inside, much of the original structure is obscured by 19th and 20th-century alterations, though the rear splay of the 12th-century nave window remains, and two bays of the north aisle are visible, the east bay displaying foliate mouldings to the bases of the arches. The north chapel roof has moulded beams, while the chancel east windows have moulded shafts, with a mixture of 14th and 19th-century stained glass. A two-centred west tower arch is also present.