Paulet House (Formerly Known As Church Close)

House, initially dating to the early 15th century, with alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries, and remodelling and extension around 1871. Constructed of stuccoed stone with rusticated quoins and featuring slate gable-ended and hipped roofs with ridge cresting, along with brick stacks with cornices.

The original Medieval hall survives at the north end of the house and remains open, though its roof is concealed by a 17th-century plaster ceiling. A cross-passage exists on the left side. Around 1871, the house underwent significant remodelling; the cross-passage was preserved as the primary entrance, leading to a large stairhall added at the back and a drawing room built behind the hall. The stairhall and drawing room replaced an earlier rear range. The lower south end of the house was rebuilt in the mid-to-late 19th century as the service wing of the Victorian house and now functions as a separate residence, listed separately as Dower House.

The east front presents a single-storey hall on the right, with a steeply pitched gable roof, two large sash windows with margin glazing bars, and a Roman Doric portico sheltering a 18th-century panelled and glazed pointed-arch door with thick ogee glazing bars. To the left is a two-storey section adjoined by the adjoining Dower House. The rear (west) elevation is two storeys high, asymmetrical with a 2:1:2 bay arrangement; a projecting section with a hipped roof is on the left, and a gable roof section is on the right. Features include rusticated quoins, bands, cambered head sash windows with margin glazing bars, a canted bay window on the right, and a recessed central section with a large stone stair window containing three round-headed lights, a transom, and a cornice above.

The interior features a cross-passage leading to a Victorian arcaded hall with a tiled floor and an open-well staircase with a wreathed handrail and twisted balusters. A Victorian drawing room showcases a moulded plaster ceiling and a marble fireplace. The Medieval hall contains a 17th-century barrel vaulted plaster ceiling with coving and, at either end, large moulded plaster achievements displaying the arms of the Paulet family. Above the hall ceiling lies an early 15th-century roof, at least four bays in length, heavily smoke-blackened. It is characterised by chamfered arch-braced trusses, with cusped principals above the collars and intermediate trusses displaying higher arch-braced collars. Further details include large tenoned purlins, two tiers of curved wind-braces, and intact common-rafters.