Survey Data
Reg No
13901305
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house
In Use As
House
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
291225, 294183
Date Recorded
21/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former rectory, built c. 1820, now in use as private house. Rectangular-plan, rubble stone walls to south-east and south-west, single-pitched extensions at angles, attached outbuildings forming courtyard to south recently adapted to residential use. Hipped slate roof, roll topped clay hip and ridge tiles, sprocketed eaves, painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined corbelled chimneystacks, roll-moulded bands, ornate clay pots, smooth rendered corbel course, cast-iron gutters. Painted roughcast rendered walling, unpainted tooled stone projecting plinth course, rubble stone walling to basement. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffits, unpainted tooled stone sills, painted timber three-over-three sliding sash windows to first floor west elevation, six-over-six to ground floor and basement, red brick block-and-start surrounds to basement, painted iron window guards. Round-headed door opening, unpainted dressed stone roll-moulded surround, leaded petal fanlight, engaged dressed stone Doric columns, triglyph frieze, painted timber panelled door, four tooled stone steps in front, wrought-iron handrail spiralled terminations; square-headed opening to basement, east elevation, red brick voussoirs, painted timber and glass double doors; square-headed opening to basement south elevation, painted tooled stone lugged and shouldered door surround, leading stone step, painted panelled and vertically-sheeted timber door, coursed rubble stone walling flanking steps to basement, ashlar stone coping. Multiple-bay two-storey and attic stone outbuildings attached to south, dated 1821; L-plan; hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, red brick chimneystacks, copper clad round-headed dormer windows; random rubble stone walling; loop-window openings to first floor, red brick surrounds, square-headed openings to ground floor, red brick block-and-start surrounds; square-headed door openings, tooled ashlar stone lugged and shouldered surrounds, round-headed lucarne door opening to first floor east elevation, east range c. 2004, copper clad, painted timber and glass double doors, concrete steps; segmental-headed carriage arches, tooled ashlar stone block-and-start surrounds, red brick voussoirs, tooled keystone dated '1821' to west elevation, east range. Set within own grounds, garden to north, east and west, walled garden with tennis court to south-west with random rubble stone boundary wall, circular gate pier, wrought-iron gate; painted rubble stone curving wing walls to entrance, painted stone segmental coping, unpainted tooled stone octagonal gate piers, painted wrought-iron gates, painted wrought-iron fencing to avenue.
Appraisal
Churchtown House is fine surviving example of an early nineteenth-century country house originally built as the rectory for neighbouring Saint Medoc's church. The many fine details such as the sprocketed eaves, corbelled chimneystacks, fine masonry doorcase and leaded fanlight enhance the well proportioned façade. The associated outbuildings, recently adapted to residential use, enhance the setting of the house and the fine stone detailing adds to their interest.