Church House Inn

The Church House Inn is a 16th or 17th century building, with 19th-century window additions and 20th-century alterations and extensions. It is constructed of slate-stone, with some slate-hanging, brick and rendered stacks, and slate roofs. Originally the Church Ale House with a cross-passage and 3-room plan, it now incorporates 4 cottages that were originally located to the left.

The front elevation has two storeys and no visible cellar. It features a 1:1:4 window arrangement, with mainly 2-light casement windows, some containing glazing bars. A central window is a distinctive feature, consisting of a leaded Y-tracery casement within a deeper opening, formerly a doorway approached by an external stone staircase, remnants of which are visible in the walling. Below this is a plank and nail-head door within a voussoired arch with a hood on brackets. A lean-to on the right has two small sash windows, and another on the return wall under a plain gable with a large square rendered stack. The main block has a coved cornice. A small lateral brick stack is located between bays 1 and 2. To the left, the incorporated cottages originally had two close-set casements, one in a former doorway. The left return also includes two former doorways, now windows. A large square stack rises from a hipped roof end, which is lower than the main roof.

The rear elevation includes a section of slate-hanging with a deep 2-light glazing-bar casement above a door. To the right, the roof sweeps down to two casements at eaves, with a large stack on the line of the original back wall, and a large 20th-century extension of no particular architectural merit. The right end has two 2-light casements at each level; the upper level is rendered over thin bedded slate stone.

The ground floor interior features 7 transverse chamfered beams, rough-finished and without stops. A large fireplace spans the width of the right-hand end of the ground floor, with a flat 4-centred arch set on stone jambs; the right end contains a cut stone corbel on two courses of freestone. A bread oven or coving chamber is located at the back, accessible through a cast iron door. A heavy granite lintel is above the lateral fireplace to the left of the entrance. The ground floor plan was significantly modified in the 20th century, creating a large open space. A wooden spiral staircase is situated near the large fireplace. A corridor is present on the first floor, and the back wall has the remains of a blocked 2-light arched 16th-century window. The roof of the main block is an A-frame structure, pegged and with two flat purlins; the outer roof is raised above this.