Church House

SS 20 NW BUDE-STRATTON POUGHILL

5/202 Church House

GV II*

Building formerly associated with church, now converted to two houses. Early C16 or earlier C19 and C20 alterations. Dressed stone brought to course. Slate roof with gabled ends, brick chimneys at gable ends. Further brick chimney on ridge, granite dressings. Originally single depth plan may have been 2 rooms and through passage with principal room to left of passage and service room to right. 2 storeys. 3 window front. Ground floor openings have unmoulded granite lintels of different lengths at varying levels. C19 front door to left hand house has rectangular fanlight. C20 double front door to right hand house. Ground floor window left early C20 3-light casement, 4 panes per light. Ground floor window middle and right 3-light early C20 casement. 3 first door windows 3-light early C20 casements, 3 panes per light. Interior. 3 heavily-moulded cross beams survive with orders of foliage carving. Cross beam in right hand house, at left of passage has had some carving cut away. Foliage-carved bressumer to ground floor of left hand house on front wall. Ground floor fireplaces partially blocked. Right hand house has 1 massive chamfered cross beam with wide runout stops. No access to roof of left hand house, trusses over right hand house have massive unchamfered principals with 2 tiers of threaded purlins, curved feet of some principals visible in upstairs rooms. A grant dated 1520 by William Devell, Abbot of the Monastery of Cliff in Somerset mentions the Yeld house. In 1601 a major restoration took place when the end collapsed. References to the processes of brewing and baking at Church House. Brenda Hull, "The Early History of the Church House and Church Ales at Poughill 1525-1746", Cornwall Association for Local Historians, No.8, Oct. 1984, pp.3-6

Listing NGR: SS2225707712