Church House

Church House is a Grade II* listed building featuring a stone elevation with stucco render facing Lion Street. It has a slate roof adorned with a richly carved eaves cornice that includes modillions and an egg and dart design on ovolo moulding. The building has rusticated quoins and a deep band between the floors. On the first floor, there are four small-pane sash windows, each with nine panes over six, framed by moulded architraves. The ground floor showcases two tripartite small-pane sash windows, while the doorway in the second bay features a doorcase with a bracketed cornice and panelled reveals. At the south-east end, there is an entrance to a passageway, which is highlighted by a good open pediment and pilasters.

The rear elevation of the front wing has a wide hipped roof at the northwest end and a smaller hipped roof to the south. It includes a round-headed sash window to the left and two first-floor windows with modern glazing. The ground floor has a doorway with a shallow overlight and another with French doors.

The building also has a timber-framed rear wing, dating from the 17th century or earlier, which features an overhanging first floor and is now pebbledashed. It has a slate roof with a stone stack and coved eaves. The upper floor contains five windows with modern glazing, while the ground floor has a doorway near the angle with the front block, two windows, another doorway, and two additional windows, all featuring modern glazing. There is a lower later wing at the northeast end with stone rubble walls and a deep hipped slate roof, which is two storeys high and contains two modern windows on each floor, along with an offset doorway to the right. The rear of the long wing, made of exposed stone, has blocked 17th-century windows with hoodmoulds and mouldings, as well as a large external chimney.

Inside, the main room on the front ground floor features a bolection moulded fireplace in the northwest wall, while the southeast wall has a fireplace with a shouldered architrave and a doorway with a similar design and a panelled door. The northeast wall includes an arched recess, with a fielded panelled door to the left and adjoining panelling. The first floor is said to have fielded panelled doors, and the southern room contains a fireplace with a shouldered architrave. At the rear, on the ground floor, there is a well-preserved early to mid-18th-century staircase featuring twisted balusters and fluted newels. The rear wing has ovolo moulded ceiling beams on both the ground and first floors, along with 17th-century panelling on the first floor.