Church Room

SW 95 SW ST STEPHEN IN ST STEPHEN BRANNEL 3/164 Church Room and Nos.14 and 12

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Church Room with two attached houses; originally almshouses. Circa late C19; presented to the parish in 1926. Few later alterations. Squared granite rubble with brick and stone dressings. Slate roof with crested ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stack to right and axial stack with brick shafts.

Plan: The church room is to left and the pair of attached houses to right. Each house is 2-room plan, with one room to front and one to rear; No.14 is to left and No.12 to right, the house to left heated from an axial stack and the house to right from the gable end stack to right. Paired central entrances. The church room is one large un- heated room through the full height of the building, unheated.

Exterior: 2 storeys, nearly symmetrical front. The houses to right are of 3 bays on plinth with lintel level band course at ground floor and band courses at first floor at cill and impost levels. All windows are C19 plate-glass sashes. Ground floor has central paired C20 doors with cambered brick arches and keystones. To right and left, 3 windows with cambered brick arches and keystones. At first floor, the windows are arranged 3:2:3, with round brick arches and keystones. Small central gable with circular breather with brick border and terracotta finial. To left, the church room is 3:2:3 windows, all with cambered arches at ground floor and round arches at first floor with band courses as to right. Paired central doors, one C19 4-panelled and one plank door, with a similar 4-panelled door to end left. Small central gable with similar breather and finial. Above the main front doors is a slate inscription tablet recording the presentation of the church room to the parish by Edith Annie Mills in 1926. The rear of the church room has 4-pane sashes at ground and first floor levels.

Interior: The church room has a stage at the left end.

Listing NGR: SW9445053220