Church House

Church House is a house and shop dating from the 17th to 19th centuries. It is built of brick and coursed flint with brick dressings, topped with black unglazed pantiles. The west side features a 17th-century three-bay range that was refronted in the late 18th century, with two early 19th-century wings added to the east and a northeast extension for the shop.

The west front is two storeys high with an attic, constructed of brick on a rendered plinth and featuring gable end stacks. There are two ground floor and two upper floor 16-pane sash windows with glazing bars that reach close to the ground and to the floor at the first floor level, showcasing exposed sash boxes with moulded frames and segmental arches. The central door is topped by a wide segmental dummy fanlight and is framed by a doorcase with round fluted pilasters beneath a narrow entablature. Above, there is a central dummy window with glazing bars in relief.

On the left gable, the structure is made of coursed flint on a flint plinth with brick dressings, displaying decorative brick patterns of lozenges. It has two first floor windows with ovolo moulded wooden mullions and two blocked attic windows. There is a one-bay, two-storey wing on the rear left side built over an older cellar, featuring recessed 16-pane sashes with glazing bars, including a horned window on the ground floor. The two-storey wing on the right side is made of coursed flint and has a mix of 19th and 20th-century windows.

The shop extension facing the road to the east has a hipped pantile roof behind an entablature and features a 19th-century glazed shop front with large panes and glazing bars. The central door has a rectangular fanlight and is flanked by moulded pilasters at the doorcase and corners.

Inside, the west range includes a central open string staircase with a wreathed mahogany handrail and square-sectioned wooden balusters. There is a fireplace in the first floor left room with a rendered elliptical arch, and the jambs have roll moulded chamfers with jewel stops. The ground floor left room at the rear contains a late 18th-century duck's nest grate.