Church House

Church House is a semi-detached house, originally part of the rectory, dating from 1828. It was built as an extension to the earlier rectory, known as the Old Parsonage. The house is constructed of Bath stone laid as Flemish bond brick, with a Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. The front gable has two windows on each floor. A square porch with buttresses and shallow Tudor-arched openings stands to the right, featuring glazed doors with interlaced tracery within a moulded Tudor-arched inner doorway. A plain parapet tops a flat roof above the porch, and a cross window is situated above it on the first floor. A canted bay with a three-light mullioned and transomed casement is on the left, alongside a three-light mullioned and transomed window with a hoodmould above it on the first floor. A string course leads to a steep pedimented gable, which conceals a roof with a relatively shallow pitch. The left return has a canted bay on the left, and two cross windows and three first-floor windows, all with hoodmoulds. The rear gable end features similar windows, and a 20th-century door. Inside, original fittings from 1828 remain, including a staircase with stick balusters and a continuous handrail, six-panelled doors set within moulded architraves, and fireplaces. Diocesan Records, held at Trowbridge, document the building.