Church House

This is a villa, dating from approximately 1840 to 1860, and later used as church rooms. It has undergone subsequent additions and alterations, including a range added in the 1960s. The exterior is stucco over brick, with a hipped slate roof and end stacks made of gault brick.

The building is two storeys with attics and a basement, featuring three first-floor windows and a blind entrance bay on the right. The central bay projects and has quoins on the angles of the ground floor, as well as a moulded ground-floor sill band and a moulded cornice above the ground floor and a first-floor sill band. To the left, a first-floor band is present. The windows have tooled architraves, all with sills on feet. The ground floor has two windows with two horizontal panes over two smaller panes, followed by a tripartite window with two horizontal panes over one horizontal pane between two windows with two horizontal panes over one smaller pane, all with blind boxes. The first floor has two windows with two horizontal panes over two smaller panes, with cambered heads, and a pair of round-arched windows with one horizontal pane over one smaller pane, each with a hood mould. Wide eaves are supported by paired brackets. Two attic dormers have windows with three horizontal panes over three smaller panes and cambered arches; the dormer on the right breaks the eaves and has casements. The basement windows consist of eight horizontal panes over eight smaller panes, four horizontal panes over four smaller panes, eight horizontal panes over eight smaller panes, and a tripartite window with eight horizontal panes over eight smaller panes between two windows with two horizontal panes over two smaller panes. A flight of roll-edged steps leads to a three-panel, part-glazed door with an overlight, situated within a solid porch featuring a round-arched opening, cornice, and a low parapet.

The interior retains original joinery and plasterwork. A dogleg staircase has ornate iron balusters. One front room has a cornice with an anthemion motif.

Painswick Road was laid out by Charles Baker to connect Cheltenham with Painswick following an Act of 1820. The building is part of a pleasing group of villas and occupies a prominent corner site, contributing to the group value alongside No. 62 Painswick Road and the Church of St Philip and St James, Gratton Road.