Church House

1. 5180 HIGH STREET (North Side) No 11 (Church House) SX 8060 SW 1/62 7.1.52. II* GV

2. Mid C16 merchant's house, altered. 3 storeys. 3 window bays. Welsh slate roof with old rendered masonry chimneys. Masonry party wall retaining moulded corbels of former 1st and 2nd floor jetties. Timber-framed front, 1st and 2nd floorrenestrated earlier C19; modern ground floor. Coved wooden eaves cornice. slate-hung 2nd floor with moulded string at flow level. Jettied 1st floor with carved wooden brackets carrying moulded bressumer. 1st and 2nd floors with flush framed sash windows with side-lights and glazing bars; 1st floor with single light sash window. Modern ground floor shopfront. Interior with mid C18 staircase with closed string, turned balusters and squared novel. 6 panel doors with raised and fielded panelling. 1st floor rooms with Elizabethan decorated plaster ceiling panels with rib decoration divided by ceiling beams. Remains of contemporary plaster overmantel with date "1586" 2nd floor with fine chimneypiece of Beer stone: 4 centred arch with moulded reveals in square opening with ogee moulding snd stops. Strapwork and shields in relief in spandrels. The house is recorded as being acquired in 1554 by William Ball, and was probably erected shortly before this date.

Listing NGR: SX8022560443