Upper Church House

TL 97 SE 3/25

STANTON BARDWELL ROAD Upper Church House

GV II

Former rectory of St. John's Church, now a house. Early C17. 3-cell lobby- entrance form. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and rendered with double Roman tiles. An internal chimney-stack with saw tooth shafts on a square base. Small-paned 3-light metal casement windows to both storeys, those on the ground storey deeper than those above. 2 high gabled dormers with similar 2-light windows, the ridge of their roofs level with the ridge of the main roof. A single-storey fully enclosed gabled porch with a 2-light window above. A lean-to extension on the east side. Frame in 6 bays, including the remains of a chimney-bay. A 2-bay room to each side of the stack, with heavy chamfered main beams and scroll-stops with groove. An open fireplace with plain timber lintel and jambs of whitewashed stone blocks to the central room. The unheated one-bay room at the east end, which contains the stair, has studding and ceiling exposed: plain, unchamfered joists. Both sill-beams are prominent, and rest on brick plinths, suggesting that this bay is an extension, but this is not borne out by the frame above, which has no evidence of an obvious join. On the upper storey, cambered tie-beams with arched braces removed; several blocked original diamond-mullioned windows. Roof renewed.

Listing NGR: TL9617773771