1, 1a and 1b Church Street

Detached house with attached former coach house, built around 1840 with a later 19th century extension. The building now comprises three separate dwellings.

The structure is mostly constructed from volcanic trap stone (basalt), rendered, with stone dressings. The west extension is red brick, and the former coach house is rendered stone. There may be remnants of cob construction. Brick stacks with square-section terracotta pots rise from the main house, and pitched slate roofs cover throughout.

The building follows an L-shaped plan with a central entrance. The former coach house sits to the right of the principal front, while a later 19th century extension extends to the left (west) and towards the rear.

The exterior is two storeys with attics. The principal front (south) is symmetrical with three bays, a further two-storey bay to the left, and the single-storey former coach house to the right. The roof features deeply-overhanging eaves with shaped brackets. The ground floor of the principal front has a central panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight above, set back within a doorcase with panelled reveals, pilasters and a pediment. To either side are horned, two-pane sash windows with moulded architraves, heavy pediments, and cills on brackets. The three first-floor windows have eared and shouldered moulded architraves and bracketed cills. These are unhorned sashes, with eight panes per sash to the outer windows and six to the centre window, some crown glass retained. Two later 19th century gabled dormers sit within the roof, and pilaster quoins frame the principal front.

To the left is a later 19th century brick extension, plastered to the front, with one horned sash window to the ground floor. Its left-hand return has two 19th century oriel windows. A rear wing extends from here with two-light windows to the ground floor on its west side and three four-light 19th century casement windows to the first floor, the latter having diamond panes at the top. The east side repeats this pattern with diamond panes on the ground floor and three four-light 19th century casement windows above. The rear elevation of the main house has a sixteen-pane hornless sash window to the first floor, and a large stairwell window with six panes to the top sash and nine below. A later 19th century canted bay window sits to the left-hand side of the rear elevation, with six panes to the central sash window and three panes to the flanking windows.

The former coach house is single-storey with timber double-doors and decorative timber barge boards. An east elevation roundel window and a panelled timber door with a diamond-paned overlight to the front elevation provide light and access. A small single-storey extension with a monopitch roof sits in the rear angle between the house and coach house.

The interior is understood to retain tiled floors and bracketed fire-surrounds. Joinery includes panelled internal shutters and doors, and a dog-leg staircase with a curved handrail and bobbin balusters. The first-floor master bedroom at the rear features a decorative plaster cornice. Some joinery has been reproduced from surviving remnants, and other reclaimed decorative features were added in the 21st century. The current games room to the rear has a sprung floor.