20, Church Street

CREWKERNE

ST4409 CHURCH STREET 876-1/7/42 (North side) 12/06/50 No.20

GV II

House. C18 rear, refronted 1815. MATERIALS: Ham Hill stone ashlar with half-hipped slate roof and brick stacks to gable ends. Double-depth plan. Classical style. PLAN: double-depth plan with C19 brick rear extension to the left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. All windows are 6/6-pane sashes, those to the first-floor in moulded architraves; taller sashes to the ground-floor set in recesses with shallow aprons between cill and plinth. The 5-panel door has one horizontal panel to the centre, all raised-and-fielded; it is set in a casement-moulded round arch with a traceried fanlight. The ground-floor has banded rustication, and all the openings have rusticated voussoirs reaching a low platband. Dentilled cornice beneath platband. To the right-of-centre, below the parapet, is a large hopperhead and downpipe. The rear extension has a segmental arch to a cast-iron industrial-type window. INTERIOR: the central hall has a semi-circular arch toward the rear and a small foliate plaster ceiling rose at the foot of the dogleg staircase which is to the rear left; it has stick balusters, fretted ends and wreathed mahogany rail and curtail step; 6-panel doors, the front rooms have a small panel to the centre, those to the rear are C18 6-panel. Panelled shutters to the ground-floor windows, those to the front have applied reeded moulding. Front room to the left has a Regency-style white marble fireplace and floral and dentilled embellishment to a reeded cornice; rear left room has an open fire, the stone lintel of which is now covered over. The front room to the right has a reeded cornice with key-pattern freize, and some cornices remain on the first floor. HISTORY: the deeds of the house mention a cellar and a well beneath the former kitchen to the rear right.

Listing NGR: ST4402109775