Description

SJ 78 NW WARBURTON BENT LANE
(east side)

6/173 Church House
-
G.V. II

Parish rooms and caretakers house. 1889. John Douglas.
English garden wall bond brick with sandstone dressings and
clay tile roof. T-shaped 2-storey parish rooms with a lower
2-storey wing at the rear which forms the house. The parish
rooms are 4 bays long, the first projecting as the head of
the T and having a C20 lean-to at the left. Each bay has a
3-light double-chamfered mullion and transom window on the
ground foor. There are 2 weathered buttresses, a decorative
lozenge band in brick and painted plaster, a dormer window
between bays 2 and 3, a first floor window (as above) to bay
1 as well as a gable with lozenge panels, carved bargeboards
and finials. The 2-bay house has a moulded stone door
surround with dated lintel, 1, 3 and 4-light mullion
windows, a buttress, and a first floor lozenge band as
above. The rear has dormer windows and impressive chimney
stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ7048489184

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5116630

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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