NHER 30601 (Building record) - Churchgate House, No 8 Church Street

December 1950. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House. Early 16th century. Timber-framed with rendered and colourwashed brick facade. Plaintile roof, corrugated tile to rear slopes. L-plan. Main part of front of two storeys and dormer attic in three bays. Panelled central door with timber doorcase and plain hood...Gabled roof in two pitches with one gabled dormer. Internal gable end stack to north, rebuilt. Adjacent bay to south has a garage door to ground floor and exposed studs above….Gabled roof with rebuilt ridge stack. Two-storey cross wing extends to rear...North side...with an outshut to ground floor...Gabled roof in twp pitches. Rebuilt stacks. South side with a gabled dormer.
INTERIOR. Timber-framed passage leads from street door. Main room to south with chamfered bridging beam. Inserted early 17th-century fireplace and stack. Fireplace bressumer with sunk quadrant moulding and one rose medallion each side (one York, the other Lancaster). Corresponding room north of passage lined out c.1950. Staircase turret inserted in internal angle of cross
wing c.1560...Upper floor with heavy scantling studs, jowled principal studs and arched braces to rear wall of front range. North first-floor room with four-centred brick fireplace, as has rear wing first-floor room. Roof of main range of diminished principals, collars, two tiers butt purlins and curved windbracing. Rear range roof of principals, two tiers butt purlins and some straight windbracing."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
E. Rose (NLA), 11 May 1994. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 March 2022.