Church Hill House

Church Hill House is a house from the early 19th century located on the north side of East Street in Bovey Tracey. The building is constructed from granite and slatestone rubble, featuring granite ashlar quoins at the right-hand end. The rear wing includes door and window arches made of red brick. It has a slated roof with a bracketed wooden eaves-cornice at the front and red-brick chimneystacks on each gable.

The house has a double-depth plan with a wing at the rear right-hand side. The main range consists of two rooms wide, with a central through-passage and stair compartment, while the kitchen is situated in the right-hand rear room. The front range is two storeys tall with a garret, while the rear wing has two lower storeys. The symmetrical front features three windows and a central doorway with a cement surround, flanked by panelled pilasters and topped with a cornice on consoles. The doorway contains a four-panelled door with an urn-shaped brass knocker and a narrow three-pane fanlight above.

All windows have moulded stucco architraves and eight-pane sashes, some of which contain old glass. The right-hand gable wall facing Trough Lane has two garret windows with six-paned wood casements. The side wall of the rear wing has two windows, and to the left of the ground storey is a segmental-headed coach entrance with double plank gates. The second-storey windows have flat heads and two-light wood casements, each with eight panes.

Inside, there is a wooden staircase with thin square balusters and column-newels, the latter featuring tall square-section heads with rounded tops. The ground storey rooms have simple moulded plaster cornices. The left-hand rear room includes an original wood fireplace-surround with beaded edges and a plain shelf, along with a round-headed cast-iron hob grate. The right-hand front room has a late 19th-century polished black slate chimneypiece that was brought from elsewhere in the town. The upper storey and rear wing were not inspected.