St John's House

St John’s House is a large town house, likely built in the early to mid-18th century and substantially renovated internally in the early 19th century. It is constructed from coursed rubble stone with quoins on a plinth, topped by a stone slate roof. The roof has stone end stacks with brick flues and a moulded wooden eaves cornice, with inner slopes in concrete tiles. The house is a double-range building with two storeys and an attic. It has four windows on the front, featuring 12-pane sashes in plain stone frames, with a wider central gap. The ground floor windows are similar, and the front door is slightly left of centre. The door is framed by a semi-circular voussoir surround, a wooden open pediment on thin fluted pilasters and a broken entablature with paterae. It has a semi-circular soffit with a plain fanlight and a door with six elaborate flush panels, arranged in three pairs, likely made by Richard Pace.

The interior features notably fine early 19th century joinery, although much of it is now ill-fitting. A shell niche (one of a pair) is found in a panelled room on the ground floor. A wide depressed arch is in the centre of the hall, and there's a stick baluster staircase with a wreathed handrail to the rear of a wide central hall. Around 1906, two former cottages to the left of the house were converted into a doctor's surgery, with access to St John's House. This access has since been sealed, and the adjacent house, Westcot, is not considered of special architectural or historic interest.