Church House

Church House is a building constructed of buff brick, set on a moulded plinth with cable-moulded and dentilated string-courses, and features tile-coped, roll-moulded parapets. The roof is hipped slate with tiled ridges on the main block, while the remaining sections have flat roofs. The structure has an asymmetrical layout, with a large main block running north-south and a lower range adjoining to the east. The main block includes three pairs of elegant lancet-like windows with round-arched heads, splayed and moulded reveals, and shaped labels, all with leaded glazing. There is an apse-like projection to the south with slit windows. The lower east range features simple arched lights arranged in pairs, with two flanking three, each having splayed reveals and shared labels.

In the corner between the main and subsidiary blocks, there is a bowed open porch with a convex profiled slate roof that rises into an octagonal brick chimney with two stages. The porch has a concertina-type metal grill with internal double doors decorated with lozenge patterns, set within a segmental opening. The rear (east) face, which is against the rock, was raised about twenty years ago to create a false roof over a top-lit corridor, covered with a corrugated iron roof.

Inside, the tiled porch leads to glazed double inner doors. To the left of the entrance is the parish room, which has a rectangular plan with rounded end walls that give an oval impression. It features a coved ceiling and a parquet floor. There is a simple stepped brick fireplace at the rounded west end, flanked by tall, plain shelf recesses on both sides. An axial corridor has four domed top-lights and doors on the right leading to the main hall and on the left to the kitchen, store, toilets, and fire exit. The main hall has a wooden boarded floor and a plain, compartmented ceiling, with an exposed brick dado and plastered walls above. Wide chevron-carved wooden fascias are present above three double-door entrances from the corridor, with similar decoration above the south-end stage, which has a simple boarded front with arched-headed pilasters and wooden steps. The apsidal end features upper slit-lights and a flat concrete ceiling.