66,67,68, CHURCH STREET

Nos 66, 67, and 68 on Church Street are two houses that have been converted into three, dating from around 1700 and altered in the mid-19th century. They are constructed from coursed rubble stone with a tiled roof and brick stacks. The buildings are two stories high with an attic and feature eight windows with casements.

Nos 66 and 67 have two 19th-century four-panelled doors set in bolection-moulded stone cases with pediments, while the entrance to No 68 is in a round-arched opening to the right of the school. The ground floor includes six 2-light cyma-mullioned casements and two 2-light casements for No 67. The first floor has eight 2-light cyma-mullioned casements, and the attic features five hipped dormers with 2-light casements.

The rear of the buildings has two wings; the right wing is an early 18th-century stair turret with 2-light mullioned casements, which was widened in the 19th century with sash windows. The left wing has two 2-light mullioned casements on both floors, and there is a lean-to between the wings with a planked door and a four-panelled door. No 68 has a planked door and 2-light mullioned casements, along with a 19th-century wing featuring casements.

The interior of No 67 includes doors with two fielded panels, a fireplace surround with rosettes and a cornice, and a Victorian cast-iron grate with tiles. A room to the right of the door has a door with six fielded panels and panelled reveals, along with panelling in two heights featuring raised panels and a cyma-moulded ceiling cornice, plus a corner fireplace. The rear closed string stairs rise to the attics with turned balusters and square moulded newels. The interiors of Nos 66 and 68 were not accessible during the survey in June 1985, but No 67 is said to be similar. It is reputed that these houses were once home to a former Viscount Weymouth.