No. 17, Church Street

No. 17, Church Street is a large house dating to the early 19th century, later converted in the 20th century for office use. It is red brick, now painted, with a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped layout.

The north front has three recessed arcaded bays, with broad pilasters featuring stuccoed imposts. The window sills and reveals are also stuccoed. The first and second floor windows are sash windows with 4x4 panes. The roof is hipped with deep eaves, featuring bead-moulded panelled soffits. Tuck pointing is visible beneath later painting. The ground floor elements were added in the 20th century, with a central pair of doorways featuring semicircular overlights and four-panel doors (the upper two glazed). The outer bays have shop windows, each with three fully glazed wooden arched lights, one including a fully glazed door. A plinth contains a cellar vent.

The west end shows a main house block with a lower, gabled rear unit built on ground falling to the south. The rear unit is brick with rough cast rendering, and continues the deep eaves from the street. It has a 20th-century tripartite casement window with 1x3, 3x3, 1x3 panes on the ground floor, and a 4x3 pane sash window on the first floor. A segmental arched cellar light is now filled with glass bricks. The rear unit's ground floor has a 20th-century door with upper glazing (2x3 panes), and a tripartite sash window with 1x3, 3x3, 1x3 panes. The first floor has a three-light casement window with 6x3 panes and a two-light window with 4x3 panes. The east end is similar to the west, with a 20th-century sash window with 4x3 panes on the ground floor. Scored pointing is visible beneath the paint. The rear of the building is obscured by a high wall.

The interior was altered in the 20th century.