Church House

SHRE[iTON HIGH STREET SU 04 SE (west side) 3/244 Church House II Detached house. Mid Cl7, with early C19 bay added to left of front. Cob and flint, timber-framed first floor, tiled hipped roof, axial brick stack, C19 addition in painted Flemish bond brick with Welsh slate roof and brick stack to left. Cl7 lobby-entry plan, C18 corridor added to rear. 2-storey, 4-window front. Planked door in chamfered square-headed case, now within C19 gabled porch, to right are French windows, to left are two single casements and C19 part has French windows. First floor has three 2-light casements with one C20 3-light casement to C19 extension. Axial brick stack has dentilled capping in brick. Left return has no windows. First floor of right return has 2-light chamfered mullioned window. Rear has one 3-light leaded casement and planked door to ground floor of C19 extension, with 12-pane sash to first floor, main range has two 2-light and one 3-light casement to ground floor and three single leaded casements and one 3-light casement to first floor; plastered timber-frame. Roof to rear has three flat-headed dormers with 2-light casements. Attached to rear left is stable, partly converted to kitchen, with planked doors and tiled hipped roof. Interior retains important Cl7 features; hall to left of front door has fine moulded cross beams, partly cut by staircase with splat balusters, moved from another part of the house, open fireplace has chamfered lintel and brick jambs. Dining room to right of door has good C18 fielded panelling and deeply chamfered ceiling beam. A large door with 6 fielded panels, now between the hall and rear corridor, was probably the front door, other doors with fielded panels. Cl9 extension has fireplace with reeded surround and paterae. The house is said to have been a falconry during the Cl9 and up to 1920s. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury).

Listing NGR: SU0695444374