Church House, With Gatepiers, Gate And Railings

Church House is a large town house, likely dating from the late 17th century, which was refronted and enlarged in the early 18th century. The building is constructed of rubble stone with alternating chamfered quoins and features a hipped stone slate roof with a moulded wood eaves cornice. It has four tall stone external stacks with single ashlar flues that have moulded cornices. The main central square range consists of two storeys and an attic, with flanking wings added after World War I using similar materials.

The north entrance front has three windows, which are 12-pane sashes with timber lintels. On the ground floor, there are two similar windows alongside a central moulded stone square doorcase that has a large flat wooden hood supported by brackets, leading to a door with two large recessed panels. The house features two gabled dormers with projecting wooden cornices and paired 6-pane wooden casements. On the south side, to the left of the back door, there is a 12-pane sash window with original glazing bars, and the door has a flat wooden hood on scrolled brackets.

While the interior is not accessible, it is likely to be of interest. To the north, there are gatepiers made of ashlar on a moulded plinth, featuring indented corners, a plain frieze, a wide moulded cornice, and a large stone ball finial on a three-step base, standing about 3 meters tall. Between the gatepiers is a wrought iron gate, with matching railings on either side, set on a coped coursed rubble stone wall, likely dating from the late 19th or early 20th century. At the back of the house, there is a large rectangular fish pond with sloping banks, which probably represents the remains of a formal garden from the 18th century. To the southeast of the house are the remains of one of the village wharves, which was originally open to the Thames and has been excavated and partly re-walled in the late 20th century.