Church House

Church House is a 17th century building, later altered, located on Vantorts Road. It is a tall, single-storey structure with attics, featuring weatherboard cladding that is white painted above a renewed brick base, and a pebbledashed east gable. The steep roof is covered with old red tiles, has a bellcast shape, and broad plaster coved eaves at the front. There are three 19th century tiled gabled dormers with three-light wooden casements and boarded cheeks and gables. The building also has 19th century Gothic moulded drip moulds above three windows and a door near the west corner. The windows are tall, two-light mullioned and transomed wooden cross windows with decorative leaded glazing. The entrance features a nine-panel door with studs. Inside, the space is now a single hall with attics above. Historical records from 1652 to 1875 indicate its use as a workhouse and later as a school, and it is marked as a school on the 1879 Ordnance Survey map.

Adjacent to Church House is No. 1, an early 19th century, two-storey building with a cellar. It is constructed of red brick with lighter red rubbed brick flat arches and has a low-pitched hipped slate roof with wide overhanging eaves and a flat plastered soffit. This building has one window facing Church Street and three windows facing Vantorts Road, with a rounded corner that sweeps out to square in line with the heads of the upper windows. A projecting low plinth is also present. The rear chimney is located against the west gable of Church House, with a smaller chimney on the south gable. The first floor features recessed sash windows with eight-over-eight panes, while the ground floor has larger windows with six-over-six panes. There is a central round-headed recess on the north ground floor with a window that has radiating glazing bars, and a door is located at the south corner. This corner group is significant in street views and from the churchyard.