Whitchurch House

House. It was remodelled and extended in the early 19th century from an earlier 18th-century property, and was formerly a vicarage. The house is built of roughly coursed slatestone, with slate hanging on the main south and west sides; it has a rag slate roof, hipped at the front, with rendered and 19th-century brick stacks. The double-depth plan incorporates service ranges to the east, forming a courtyard. There are two storeys and a four-window south front featuring 6/6-pane sash windows (with later horned replacements on the ground floor), and a tripartite window with a 4:12:4 pane layout to the left. All windows have simple bracketed wooden hoods. A half-glazed door with fanlight sits within panelled reveals beneath a Tuscan porch. The west return has similar fenestration with later horned sashes and two early 20th-century French windows. Both elevations have a deep wooden cornice, with dentilled decoration on the west side. To the right of the front elevation is a lower two-storey service range featuring bracketed hoods over two first-floor sashes and paired sashes to the ground floor, all with 6/6-pane glazing. Rear and east elevations also have similar sashes, though ground floor fenestration on the east side was altered in the mid-20th century with the installation of two new windows. A short length of rubble wall attached to a two-storey outbuilding with a half-hipped roof and tall sash windows lighting a first-floor room (a possible former schoolroom) is located at the rear right (north-east) corner. The interior retains numerous original early 19th-century features, including panelled doors with brass fittings, decorative and moulded plaster cornicing, chimney pieces, and an open-well stair with fret-cut brackets, turned balusters, and a handrail ramped to a later (circa 1860s) newel with an acorn finial, all within a central stairhall featuring a coved cornice and domed lantern. A larger service area to the east contains simpler joinery, including reused 18th-century panelled doors, and a service stair with stick balusters. The property is depicted as a vicarage on a map of Tavistock dating from 1784.