Church House

Church House, formerly known as The School, is a probable former almonry that has been used as a church house and school, and is now a village hall with offices for the Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation. The building dates from the 16th century, with a core that may date back to the 14th century, and it is thought to have been built in two stages. It underwent restoration around 1844.

The structure is made of random coursed and dressed stone, topped with a stone slate roof featuring coped verges and 19th-century ashlar stacks with twin diagonally set flues at the ridge and north end. It is a single long range building with two storeys and an attic, displaying stepped buttresses only at the south end, located approximately halfway along its length.

The building features arched light stone mullioned windows with square hoodmoulds, predominantly two-light on the west side and three-light on the east side. There are some replaced or inserted windows from the 19th and 20th centuries. Each side has five window bays, and the east side includes two 19th-century three-light gabled dormers.

The north end has chamfered pointed arch doorways on each side, while the south end features a 4-centred archway with enriched spandrels and square hoodmoulds on either side. On the east side at the north end, there is a blocked doorway with a very large flush stone lintel, likely from the original structure, which appears to incorporate some of the walling in the north gable end wall. The interior has been significantly altered in the 19th century but retains one 4-centred archway on the left side, similar to the doorway on the west side, which may have originally been an external doorway.