Church House

VANTORTS ROAD 1. 5253 (East Side) No 1 and Church House TL 4844 1479:3/64 II GV 2. C17 and later. Weatherboarded tall single storey building with attics facing onto Bell Street with early C19 red brick 2 storey corner block facing onto Vantorts Road. Older part (Church House) has white painted weatherboarding above a renewed brick base and E gable pebbledashed. Steep old red tile roof with bellcast and broad plaster coved eaves to front (N) and 3,C19 tiled gabled dormers with 3 light wooden casements and boarded cheeks and gables. C19 Gothic moulded drip moulds to 3 windows and door near W corner. Tall 2 light mullioned and transomed wooden cross windows with fancy leaded glazing. 9 panel door with studs. Interior now a single hall with attics over. Deeds 1652-1875 record its use as a workhouse and then a school. Marked as school on OS 25" 1879. No 1 is early C19, 2 storeys and cellar red brick with lighter red rubbed brick flat arches and low pitched hipped slate roof with wide overhanging eaves and flat plastered soffit. 1 window to Church Street, 3 to Vantorts Road. Reserved rounded corner swept out to square in line with the heads of the upper windows. Projecting low plinth. Rear chimney against W gable of Church House. Smaller chimney on S gable and. Recessed sash windows with 8/8 panes to 1st floor and larger ground floor windows with 6/6 panes. Central roundheaded recess on N. Gd floor with window and high cill. Window has radiating glazing bars. Door next S corner. Corner group of importance in street views and from churchyard.

Listing NGR: TL4844814798