Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 2000. Church hall. 3 related planning applications.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-slate-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 2000
- Type
- Church hall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a church hall built in 1909, designed by architect Richard Bassnett Preston in the Arts and Crafts style for St Andrew's Church. The building has some fire damage to the roof from 1943, which resulted in the loss of the original dormers on the front elevation. It is primarily rendered, featuring some timber framing, tiled decoration, a brick plinth, a stone doorcase, and a timber and tiled cupola.
The structure is symmetrical, with a central one-storey hall that has five bays and two-storey wings, including a basement on the right side. The central projecting gable is adorned with decorative tiling and a stone panel displaying the Winchester Diocesan Coat of Arms. The entrance features a four-centred arched stone doorcase with a plank door, flanked by leaded light lancets and buttresses, leading up to two semi-circular steps.
At the top of the roof, there is a square cupola tiled with wooden supports and topped with a pyramidal roof and a metal weathervane dated 1909. Each side of the central porch has two leaded light windows, one with three lights and the other with four lights. The two-storey ends have gables supported on jetties at the front, each featuring a four-light casement window on the first floor. The left side has lost its leaded lights and has a four-light square bay on the ground floor, while the right side displays timber framing beneath this window.
The side elevations include two tiled gabled dormers with three-light windows, and the ground floors feature three-light mullioned and transomed windows, along with additional basement windows in the right side wing. The rear has steeply pitched roofs with exposed curved braces and plank doors with elaborate ironmongery.
Inside, the central hall has a later suspended ceiling, obscuring the roof structure. There are stairs leading to the stage, which retains folding panelled partitions. The wings contain wooden well staircases with cross-shaped cutouts in the balustrading. A timber plaque commemorates the building's use as a wartime canteen.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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