Churchgate House

Churchgate House is a house dating to the early 16th century, located in Wymondham. It is primarily timber-framed with a rendered and colourwashed brick facade, and has a plaintile roof with corrugated tiles on the rear slopes. The building is laid out in an L-shape. The main front section is two storeys high with a dormer attic, arranged over three bays. It features a panelled central door within a timber doorcase, topped with a plain hood. There are early 19th-century three-light casement windows to the right and left of the door, with similar casements above and a two-light casement over the door. The gabled roof has two pitches and a single gabled dormer. An internal gable end stack has been rebuilt on the north side. An adjacent bay to the south has a garage door on the ground floor and visible studs above, along with a single upper window and a gabled roof with a rebuilt ridge stack. A two-storey cross wing extends to the rear to the right, featuring an ovolo moulded two-light first-floor window at the rear of the front range. The north side of the cross wing includes an outshut on the ground floor and an eight-light diamond mullioned window above, under a gabled roof with rebuilt stacks. The south side has a gabled dormer.

Inside, a timber-framed passage runs from the street door. The main room to the south has a chamfered bridging beam. An early 17th-century fireplace and stack have been inserted, with a fireplace bressumer featuring a sunk quadrant moulding and a rose medallion on either side (one depicting York, the other Lancaster). A room north of the passage was lined out around 1950. A staircase turret was inserted into the internal angle of the cross wing around 1560; the staircase has a closed string and turned and pillar balusters and newels, most of which are late 20th-century replacements. The upper floor exhibits heavy scantling studs, jowled principal studs, and arched braces to the rear wall of the front range. A four-centred brick fireplace is present in the north first-floor room, as is one in the rear wing's first-floor room. The main range’s roof is constructed with diminished principals, collars, two tiers of butt purlins, and curved wind bracing. The rear range roof shows principals, two tiers of butt purlins, and some straight wind bracing.