Church House

The building is a church house erected in 1893 by public subscription in memory of Edward James, Third Earl of Powis. It was designed by T.E.Price. The building comprises three distinct elements: a hall, a stage area, and a service/entrance range to the rear. The exterior is constructed of roughly coursed and squared local green granite, with a graded slate roof over the hall and stage area, featuring a slightly swept profile and a stepped coped gable at the southwest corner. The north elevation, facing the street, is symmetrically arranged with three-light wood mullioned and transomed windows with segmental voussoir heads, flanked by doorways with paired doors and glazed upper panels set within segmental archways, also with segmental voussoir heads and etiolated keystones. A secondary entrance to the left has a battened plank door recessed in a shallow archway. A low-relief carving of the Powis arms is displayed on the inscription plate, above which hangs a wrought-iron, bracketed lamp. Paired windows are located in the right-hand gable. The stage area forms a recessed cross-wing, positioned behind an earlier building to the left. The rear elevation features three by three-light wood mullioned and transomed windows with leaded panes, and two side wall stacks that break through the moulded eaves cornice. The stage area's gable is tile-hung and contains paired, three-tier, wood mullioned and transomed windows with some leaded glazing. A projecting, flat-roofed, single-storeyed range to the right has a canted angle housing an entrance, with a plank door set in a stepped voussoir arch beneath a steep, pedimented gable.

Inside, the hall has five bays with stylised hammer-beam trusses. Curved window embrasures alternate with arched fireplace recesses in the south wall, which have strongly moulded surrounds in a 18th-century style. The proscenium arch features Neo-Classical details. The platform has dado panelling and an arched recess to its rear, housing a further 18th-century-style fireplace.

A small forecourt fronts the building and is enclosed by a rusticated rubble wall, stepped in height, with terminal piers at either end, and gate piers towards the centre featuring ball finials. Paired cast-iron gates provide access to steps leading to the doorways.

The church house is considered an excellent example of simplified Arts and Crafts design, utilizing local materials, expressive planning, and detail.