HADLOW CHURCH STREET (west side) TQ 63 49 7/22 Chancel House and Church House 20.10.54 (formerly listed as Church House and Police House) GV II Pair of houses. Early C18 with some C19 and C20 modernisation. The ground floor level is Flemish bond brick, the first floor is timber-framed and hung with peg-tile on the end walls and mathematical tiles on the front; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof. Plan: Pair of contemporary mirror-plan cottages facing east, Chancel House to left (south) and Church House to right. Each has 2 principal rooms, parlour in the middle and dining room at the end. Direct entry through small internal porch into the parlour which is heated by a rear lateral stack. Stairs rise alongside this stack. Dining rooms have gable-end stacks. Integral rear outshots include the services. The kitchen share an axial stack in the party wall. Both are 2 storeys with attics and lean-to single-storey outshots. Exterior: Overall symmetrical 5-window front, all late C19 horned 4-pane sashes, probably contemporary with the mathematical tiles. Paired front doorways. Both frames are early C18, so to is the fielded panel door to left (Chancel House) and the shared flat-roofed hood with moulded edges. Original timber eaves cornice including modillion brackets. Mansard roof is sprocketted to the front and to rear continues down over the service outshots. It is gable ended. 2 front flat-roofed dormers to the attics. These and the windows in each gable end are casements; the right end one (Church Cottage) includes 2 originals containing diamond panes of leaded glass. Interior: Only Chancel House was inspected but Church House should be similar. Both front rooms have exposed axial beams, chamfered with runout stops. The curving back of the original brick fireplace in the parlour behind a replacement chimneypiece. The joinery detail is plain. Original roof structure is mostly plastered but there are staggered butt purlins between the trusses. This is a particularly good pair of modest early C18 houses amongst a good group of listed buildings close by the Church of St Mary (q.v.). Listing NGR: TQ6341549757