St Michaels Church House

St Michaels Church House is a house, likely built as a schoolmaster's residence. It may date back to the time of the original schoolroom, constructed in 1848 by the Ven. Archdeacon Woollcombe, but its style suggests it could be from a later period. The building is made of dressed local grey limestone rubble with red brick details and features a gabled asbestos slate roof, along with three chimney stacks that have red brick shafts. It is designed in a Tudor style with an asymmetrical layout, consisting of a main range with a front left crosswing and a rear right crosswing.

The house is located prominently at the corner of Fore Street and Newton Road, next to the school. It has two storeys and an asymmetrical one-window front facing Fore Street, where the gable end of the crosswing is on the left and the long side of the main range is on the right, featuring a projecting lateral stack with set-offs. All openings have cranked brick arches with stone keyblocks, and the windows have stone sills. The front door is situated in the angle between the wing and the main range, sheltered by a slated porch canopy supported on trefoil-pierced timber brackets.

On the ground floor of the wing, there is a three-light casement window with three panes per light, and a similar two-light casement window on the first floor. The elevation facing Newton Road has one window on the ground floor and one on the first floor, with the gable end of the main range to the left and the crosswing featuring a gabled dormer with pierced bargeboards. The ground floor windows are three-light casements, while the first floor windows are two-light casements. The interior has not been inspected. This is an attractive 19th-century house situated in a central location in the town.