Whitchurch House

House. Built in the early 17th century, with alterations and extensions in the early 18th and early 20th centuries. The ground floor is constructed of coursed rubble with a moulded first-floor string course. The upper storey is roughcast with a moulded wooden cornice and rendered parapet. The roof is tiled, and the chimney on the left has a stone stack with two square shafts of thin brick set diagonally, which have been rebuilt. The central 17th-century chimney has pilasters on three sides, and a later brick chimney is on the right. The house has two storeys and a cellar, with four main bays. The ground-floor windows on the left are early 20th-century three-light wooden casements with transoms. Five similar windows light the first floor. Two bays on the right of the ground floor each contain two early 18th-century three-pane sash windows in architrave frames. A small cellar window is situated in the third bay. A small inglenook window, partly chamfered and with a stone surround, is centrally located. The good quality wide central door is six-panelled, with an architrave frame and rectangular fanlight. A flat wooden cornice hood above the door has a panelled soffit and elaborately carved scroll brackets. An ornamental carved wooden panel featuring cherubs has been placed above the door, along with a later sundial. Extensions run parallel to the rear of the house, with gabled form and irregular leaded cross windows. A gabled porch with a made-up wooden doorcase and projecting side wings are also present. Inside, a room on the ground floor to the left has early 18th-century bolection panelling and two-panelled doors. A room to the left of the centre has a large fireplace with moulded stone jambs and a moulded four-centred wooden lintel. The inner side walls of the fireplace feature chamfered depressed arches of dressed stone; the left forms a niche, and the right has a window. The 18th-century staircase has turned balusters, a moulded handrail and bulbous newelposts. The interior also contains chamfered and stop-chamfered spine beams.