Druce'S Hill House

Druce's Hill House, located at 22 Church Street, is an early to mid-18th century building constructed of ashlar with a hipped stone tiled roof. It stands three storeys tall with five windows on the main facade and a single-storey, two-window wing on the right. The facade features rusticated quoins, moulded strings at the first and second floor levels, a moulded cornice supported by small console brackets, and a parapet with balusters positioned above the windows.

All windows are sashes with glazing bars, architrave surrounds, and moulded sills. The ground floor windows have cambered heads and keystones, including those in the wing. The central window above the door is framed by bolection moulding and a fluted keystone. The central entrance consists of a square-headed door with a fanlight and a six-panelled door, accessed by five semi-circular steps. This doorway and the centre windows are flanked by pilasters in three orders, creating a prominent central feature. The ground floor pilasters are semi-Tuscan, each featuring three raised surface panels with bevelled edges, topped by an entablature adorned with triglyphs and guttae, along with flower motifs in the metopes. The first-floor pilasters are fluted Corinthian, with a plain frieze and a moulded cornice on consoles. The upper pilasters also have surface panels and extend to a crowning cornice. The wing extension has a plain parapet and a hipped stone tiled roof.

Druce's Hill House is part of a group of listed buildings on Church Street, which includes the Chantry, Little Chantry, Barton Orchard, and the Catholic Church of St Thomas More on Market Street, as well as Nos 7 and 9 to 19 Barton Orchard and Nos 5, 6, and 27 to 31 (consecutive) and the wall at Newtown.