Church House Inn

Church House Inn is a public house that was originally the church house, dating back to the 16th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone rubble and features a bitumenised scantle slate roof with gabled ends. The building has an eight-bay, long rectangular plan and was originally two storeys high, with a stair turret located on the southwest corner and two lateral stacks on the north side, along with gable end stacks. There is a blocked central doorway on the north side and a later outshut added to the north side. The building is now two storeys tall with an approximately three-window range. The 19th and 20th-century windows are two and three-light casements with glazing bars. The north front has two lateral chimney stacks, with the left-hand stack projecting and featuring set-offs. A large later outshut is positioned on the right side of the north side, which includes a mounting block at the front. The central doorway on the north side is now blocked.

On the southwest corner of the south front, there is a rectangular projecting stair turret. Inside, there are seven axial beams and one half beam at the west end, all featuring step stops, with unstopped beams at each end. An inserted screen at the east end creates a small room and has a chamfered head beam. This screen is made of plank and chamfered muntins, although the centre section is missing and some planks have been removed. There is a lateral fireplace at the rear east end of the north wall, which has a chamfered timber lintel, and another fireplace at the west gable end with a massive stone lintel. The stair turret on the southwest corner contains newel stairs with slate treads, and the doorframe at the bottom has a cranked head with ovolo and hollow moulding. The fireplaces on the first floor are likely blocked. In total, there are nine trusses with cranked feet visible in the first-floor rooms, including end trusses against the gable ends. The roof space shows that these trusses are not smoke-blackened and feature morticed apices and morticed far cranked collars, although some collars are missing. There is no ridge piece, and three tiers of threaded purlins remain intact, but the rafters are missing.