Church House

Church House is a house dated 1666, with alterations from the 19th century. It is constructed of rendered Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, with a timber-framed right-hand wall. It has rubble lateral and axial stacks and a slate cross-gabled roof. The interior is arranged with a front and rear room divided by a stack containing fireplaces on each side, and a 19th-century staircase on the right-hand side. The house has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a two-window front. It features steep gable parapets on each side, limestone quoins to the right-hand side, ashlar dressings to the attic window, and a late 19th-century tooled ashlar surround to a small right-hand doorway. There are 18th-century six-pane sashes in flush frames, paired 19th-century plate-glass sashes to the attic, and a late 17th-century keyed oculus in the top of the gable. Two small shields are positioned above the doorway, inscribed "ETA" and "1666."

The interior includes a fine, late 17th-century ground-floor front room with full bolection-moulded panelling to a cornice, a panelled overmantel to the left-hand fire surround, and a carved overmantel to the rear, featuring a Doric entablature beneath a central cartouche with helm and rocaille, and recessed sections with carved classical allegorical figures holding shields. The ceiling is also of fine quality, composed of two sections with detailed panels, pomegranates, and moulded bosses, separated by a panelled Jacobean-style beam with strapwork, and a frieze above the cornice with adorning griffins. Panelling is present flanking the fireplace and overmantel in the rear ground-floor room. The first-floor front room has a small Tudor-arched cupboard and a cyma-moulded beam. A diagonally braced timber-framed wall features reused timbers. The plasterwork is similar in style and content to that found at the Llandoger Trow on King Street, though of a higher quality. The building may have once been part of a house with several gables, and that to the Church of St James to the right may have previously been one.