Churchgate House

House, likely a former religious guild hall, dating probably to around 1500, with later additions and alterations including a late 18th and early 19th century refronting. A 20th-century single-storey addition to the right has little architectural significance. The building is timber-framed and stands on a brick plinth, with a brick front and right gable wall, and roughcast rendering. It has a plain tile roof. Originally, the left bay had three jettied storeys with a lower range probably adjoining to the right. Now, it appears as two storeys with a single-storey cross range to the rear right and a two-storey cross wing to the rear left. The central entrance has a six-panel door set within a pilastered doorcase with a frieze and dentilled cornice, panelled reveals, and a soffit. Twelve-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars are placed asymmetrically; some have wedge lintels. A first-floor band runs along the front. An external stack to the rear right likely housed a former stair projection under a pent roof. The two gabled wings have ridge stacks.

Inside, the building features two main bays. A later staircase hall has been inserted into the wider left bay which was formerly jettied, as evidenced by the dragon beam. The ceiling is a notable feature, with leaf-scroll moulded beams and joists. The gable wall displays blocked pair of 6-light ovolo and cavetto moulded mullion windows, flanking a large central opening, now blocked with a sash window. A brick inglenook is present at the rear wall, with some herringbone and stepped brickwork, and a mutilated chamfered bressummer above. A projection next to the inglenook may indicate the original position of a newel stair. The staircase hall contains an early 19th-century staircase with column newels, stick balusters, and carved tread ends. There is a section of 17th-century panelling with H hinges. A studded partition wall to the right has a central chamfered post with fine carving – a demi-angel with a shield bearing a crown emblem. Behind this partition wall is a blocked Tudor-arched chamfered doorway, and the room to the right shows the reverse of this doorway. Another fine ceiling features leaf-scroll moulded beams with leaf stops and moulded joists. A further blocked Tudor-arched doorway is present at the right gable end. On the first floor, a large chamfered jowled central post is visible. The left bay has studded walls and moulded beams and joists, and a dragon beam indicates a removed jettied storey above. In the right bay, near the studded partition wall, is a crown post braced front and rear to a tie beam, with an additional mortice on the outer face suggesting a probable lower range originally adjoining the three-storey jettied left bay. Access to the roof above the right bay was not possible during the resurvey. A small section of hand-painted plaster remains. Early 19th-century fireplaces are present in both rooms. The house was undergoing renovation at the time of resurvey.