Description

SW 95 SW ST STEPHEN IN ST STEPHEN
BRANNEL
3/164 Church Room and Nos.14 and 12

II

Church Room with two attached houses; originally almshouses. Circa
late C19; presented to the parish in 1926. Few later alterations. Squared
granite rubble with brick and stone dressings. Slate roof with crested
ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stack to right and axial stack
with brick shafts.

Plan: The church room is to left and the pair of attached houses to
right. Each house is 2-room plan, with one room to front and one to
rear; No.14 is to left and No.12 to right, the house to left heated
from an axial stack and the house to right from the gable end stack
to right. Paired central entrances. The church room is one large un-
heated room through the full height of the building, unheated.

Exterior: 2 storeys, nearly symmetrical front. The houses to right
are of 3 bays on plinth with lintel level band course at ground floor
and band courses at first floor at cill and impost levels. All windows
are C19 plate-glass sashes. Ground floor has central paired C20 doors
with cambered brick arches and keystones. To right and left, 3 windows
with cambered brick arches and keystones. At first floor, the windows
are arranged 3:2:3, with round brick arches and keystones. Small central
gable with circular breather with brick border and terracotta finial.
To left, the church room is 3:2:3 windows, all with cambered arches
at ground floor and round arches at first floor with band courses as
to right. Paired central doors, one C19 4-panelled and one plank door,
with a similar 4-panelled door to end left. Small central gable with
similar breather and finial. Above the main front doors is a slate
inscription tablet recording the presentation of the church room to
the parish by Edith Annie Mills in 1926. The rear of the church room
has 4-pane sashes at ground and first floor levels.

Interior: The church room has a stage at the left end.

Listing NGR: SW9445053220

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26598975

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