Church House

Church House is a house located in Westmill village, with a 16th-century south wing and an early 17th-century front block. The eastern part of the front block was raised and made uniform with the rest of the building in the early 18th century. There is also a short rear wing at the southeast, which dates from the 19th or 20th century. The building features a timber frame with roughcast and steep old red tile roofs, and has a bellcast and plastered soffit to the front eaves.

This large, two-storey T-shaped house faces north and has a long single-storey and attic south wing extending to the rear. The south part, formerly known as Church House Cottage, is a two-bay structure with jowled posts, a clasped-purlin roof, tension bracing, and a three-light diamond mullioned window in the east wall. Inside, there is a floor with an axial beam and exposed joists, as well as a central chimney that was inserted in the 18th century. A gabled dormer is present on the west roof slope.

The front block has a similar structure with two dormers on the west side and one on the east, with a chimney that is part of the hall fireplace. At a higher level, there is a three-unit 17th-century house facing the street, with a parlour on the west side and a hall in the middle, both featuring axial beams and rear wall lateral fireplaces. The entrance leads into a through passage at the lower end of the hall. The kitchen is located on the east side, down two steps, and includes a large gable chimney and a bread oven. This part was originally single-storey until it was raised to a uniform two-storeys in the early 18th century.

The north front now has three sash windows on the first floor and a smaller window above the door, which is a third from the east end. Below, there are three-light casement windows. The flush box sash windows have 6/6 panes and moulded architraves. The entrance features a Doric doorcase with fluted pilasters and a triangular pediment with a triglyph frieze. Inside, the building has a chamfered three-centred brick fireplace in the chamber over the hall, exposed timbers on the walls and floors, a brick floor in the kitchen, and ogee-and-bow stops on the axial beams in the hall and parlour.