Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.

Church House

WRENN ID
fallen-jade-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1985
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church House is a detached house dating from the mid-17th century, with an early 19th-century bay added to the left side of the front. The building is constructed of cob and flint, with a timber-framed first floor and a tiled hipped roof. It features an axial brick stack, while the 19th-century addition is made of painted Flemish bond brick with a Welsh slate roof and a brick stack on the left. The house has a lobby-entry plan from the 17th century, with a 18th-century corridor added to the rear.

The front is two stories high with four windows. There is a planked door in a chamfered square-headed case, now located within a 19th-century gabled porch. To the right of the door are French windows, and to the left are two single casements, with the 19th-century part also featuring French windows. The first floor has three 2-light casements and one 20th-century 3-light casement in the 19th-century extension. The axial brick stack has dentilled capping. The left side of the building has no windows, while the first floor of the right side features a 2-light chamfered mullioned window.

At the rear, there is one 3-light leaded casement and a planked door on the ground floor of the 19th-century extension, along with a 12-pane sash on the first floor. The main range has two 2-light and one 3-light casement on the ground floor, and three single leaded casements and one 3-light casement on the first floor, with a plastered timber frame. The roof at the rear has three flat-headed dormers with 2-light casements.

Attached to the left rear is a stable, which has been partly converted into a kitchen, featuring planked doors and a tiled hipped roof. The interior retains significant 17th-century features; the hall to the left of the front door has fine moulded cross beams, partly interrupted by a staircase with splat balusters that has been relocated from another part of the house. The open fireplace in the hall has a chamfered lintel and brick jambs. The dining room to the right of the door features good 18th-century fielded panelling and a deeply chamfered ceiling beam. A large door with six fielded panels, now situated between the hall and rear corridor, was likely the original front door, along with other doors that have fielded panels. The 19th-century extension includes a fireplace with a reeded surround and paterae. The house is said to have served as a falconry during the 19th century and into the 1920s.

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