Church House Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1986. Public house.
Church House Inn
- WRENN ID
- heavy-vestry-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church House Inn is a public house that may have originally served as the church house. It dates from around the late 16th century, with a later rear wing and 20th-century additions. The building is constructed of roughcast stone rubble and has a 20th-century slate roof with gabled and hipped ends. It was likely originally two storeys high and features a three-room plan with a three-bay central hall and small end rooms separated by screens. The entrance porch is located at the left-hand bay of the hall, which has a lateral hall stack at the centre front and a gable end stack.
At the rear of the north end, there is a later wing that forms an L-shaped plan. A 19th-century staircase has been added to the back of the left-hand bay of the hall, which has been partitioned off to create a stair hall. Additionally, a partition has been inserted into the front of the hall to create a snug. The building is two storeys high and has a five-window range, featuring 20th-century timber ovolo moulded windows with leaded panes. To the left of the lateral stack at the centre of the front wall, there is a two-storey gabled porch with later decorative timber framing. The inner doorway has a step stop-chamfered timber lintel and 19th-century panelled and glazed doors.
Inside, the three bays of the hall have three moulded ceiling beams with ovolo and two hollows, and similar head beams over the end screens. The north screen features wide planks and a muntin with bead moulding, along with a moulded head beam with long exposed pegs. Some planks at one end have been removed, while the south end screen may be hidden behind a later partition. The hall's three bays also have similarly moulded joists with concave scroll steps. The ceiling in the end room has been plastered over, and the fireplaces have been blocked. The front lateral hall fireplace has granite jambs and a chamfered timber lintel, with one end featuring a bar step. A mid-19th-century staircase has been inserted into the south end of the hall, complete with a weathered handrail and turned balusters. The roofs were entirely replaced in the late 19th century.
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