GOUDHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7237-7337 (north side) 15/188 Church House and Church 9.6.52 Cottage (formerly listed as Coffee House and Church Cottage) GV II* House pair. C16, altered C18. Timber-framed and clad with weather boarding and red brick and tile hanging on 1st floor with plain-tiled roof. Two builds; Church House lobby entry plan with 4 framed bays, with Church Cottage recessed and returned to right. Two storeys, attic and basement. Declining up slope to right to plinth. Continuous jetty to Church House, with moulded bressummer on brackets. Moulded wooden modillion eaves cornice across whole front and returned to side elevations. Hipped roof with slight gablets, with central-left moulded stack with arched recessed panel, and stacks projecting at end right and to rear right. Four flat roofed dormers with leaded lights. Three mullioned and tran- somed 3 light leaded windows with 2 light to centre and sash window at end right on 1st floor, with 8 light mullioned and transomed window to left and 2 three light windows to centre right and right on ground floor. Door of 3 moulded panels to right and flight of 6 steps. Fine moulded panelled double doors to centre left in large moulded and four centred arched surround with carved fernleaf and letter 'B' in spandrels, at head of flight of 8 steps. Ornate scrolled wrought iron sign bracket and frame to centre on 1st floor. Two moulded 9 panelled carriage doors to basement. Right return with 2 light mullioned and transomed windows on each floor, with outshot canted forward at end right. Interior: Plank and muntin panelling in principal dining room, moulded ceiling beams throughout and murals on stair landing reported. Originally a cloth hall, the building was subsequently a Tavern, a barracks for the anti-smuggling Militia band at Goudhurst and the base of William Rootes Snr's. Bicycle business c.1900 from which developed the Rootes motor group. Listing NGR: TQ7232837823