Church House

ST 9958 POTTERNE ROOKE'S LANE

14/166 No 3 (Church House)

GV II

House, c1600, heavily restored in later C19, rubble stone with ashlar dressings and fishscale-banded plain tile roofs. West end stack. 2½ storeys, 2-gabled front with central projecting 2- storey ashlar gabled porch. Porch has coped gable and ball finial, hollow-moulded recessed mullion windows, one 3-light with hood mould to first floor front, blank 2-light to each side. Dripcourse over flush moulded doorway. Main house has entirely C19 fenestration, 3-light ovolo-moulded with hood mould and relieving arch to main floors each side, 3-light chamfered with hoodmould to attics. On right side date plaque P W / I V M V / 1614. West end extension with brick gable end. Parallel rear range with end stacks appears mostly C19 but is remodelling of earlier building. Three sharp gables, C19 mullion windows generally with 2-storey ashlar bay window, but 18-pane stair-light probably C18. Single storey range to right of main front with stone slates, half-hipped to West. C20 door with hood on brackets and renewed timber-mullion windows.

Listing NGR: ST9961358496