25, Church Street

No. 25 Church Street is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with possible earlier origins. It was remodelled and extended in the 18th or 19th century, and has a 20th-century addition. The building is constructed of red sandstone rubble and features an asbestos tile roof with gabled ends. There is a gable-end stack with stone weathering and a later brick shaft.

The house has a two-room plan in the main front range, with the larger left room containing a gable-end fireplace and direct entry through a doorway at the front leading to a central staircase. It is possible that the house originally extended further to the south. A wing from the 18th or 19th century is located at the rear of the left end, along with a 20th-century extension at the back.

The exterior is two storeys high and presents an asymmetrical three-window west front, featuring 19th-century three-light casements with horizontal glazing bars and 20th-century louvred shutters. The doorway is located to the left of centre and has a panelled and glazed door with a stone gabled porch. The left gable end has a 17th-century timber four-light ovolo-moulded mullion window on the ground floor, with a small square window above. At the rear, there is a two-storey stone extension on the right with a hipped roof.

Inside, the larger room on the left has a large dressed stone fireplace with a timber bressumer and features moulded plasterwork from the late 16th or early 17th century over the ceiling beams, decorated with trailing vine motifs and designs of fruit and a bird. There is a timber-frame partition at the centre and three jointed cruck trusses.