Church House

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CHURCH STREET TO 7552 LOOSE (South Side) 6/181 Church House 23.5.67 GV II

House, possibly formerly vicarage, latterly house and shop (by 1747), now house. Late C15 or early C16 with C17 and early and later C19 alterations. Restored gradually during 1970s and 1980s. Timber framed with daub infilling. Plain tile roof. Open hall of one timber- framed bay built at right-angles to street, with storeyed bay to right (south) end. Longer storeyed bay to left end, formerly subdivided into 2 rooms, and incorporating cross-passage and stairs. Integral rear return wing to left of 2 unequal-length timber-framed bays, that to east end reconstructed in late C20. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Lower part of ground floor underbuilt with red and grey brick. Rest close-studded. Higher midrail to hall. Tension brace to right end of each storeyed bay of main range. Underbuilt jetty to right gable end. Steeply- pitched hipped roof, left hip returning. Projecting rear stack to hall in short stone lean-to. Slender projecting brick gable end stack to right. Multiple brick ridge stack to rear of storeyed left end bay, between bay and wing. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one 4-light to left, one 3-light to right, small 2-light to hall, and first- floor remains of 2-storey C16 or early C17 close-studded rectangular bay towards centre of hall, rising through eaves with C19 4-light casement and hipped roof. Blocked door to right end of left bay, and half-glazed shop door with narrow margin lights towards front of left gable end. Sun Insurance Plaque. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded right end-of- hall beam. Plain crown-posts with 2 foot-braces; to ends of hall, to left end bay, and to junction of left bay and left wing. Combed daub to front wall of hall and left end bay. C17 stone fireplace with plain jambs to rear of hall, possibly replacing left end smoke bay, and formerly with further stone fireplace to east. Early-to-mid C17 stone fireplace to rear of left bay, with chamfer-stopped jambs. Small blocked window to first floor of left gable end. Hand-built later C20 doors, windows and fittings.

Listing NGR: TQ7571552048

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