Churche’s Mansion is a black-and-white, timber-framed house from the Elizabethan period. It stands at the eastern end of Hospital Street in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. This Grade I listed building was built in 1577 and is one of the few buildings that survived the Great Fire of Nantwich in 1583.

It was built by Thomas Clease for Richard Churche, a wealthy merchant from Nantwich, and his wife. The Churche family owned the house until the 20th century. In the early 1930s, Edgar and Irene Myott saved it from being taken to the United States. They restored the building and gave it a new life. Over the years, the mansion has been used as a home, a school, a restaurant, an antiques shop, and even for storing grain and hay.

The house is H-shaped with four gables at the front. The upper floors and attic stick out over the lower floor with jetties. The upper floors have decorative wooden panels above close-set timbers on the ground floor. The outside also has many gold-painted carvings. The windows have stone mullions and transoms, with leaded glass, and some of the glass is original. Inside, the main rooms have oak panelling, some of which is from the Elizabethan period. There are two impressive overmantels and even a coffin drop.

The famous architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called Churche’s Mansion one of the best timber-framed Elizabethan houses in Cheshire, describing it as “an outstanding piece of decorated half-timber architecture.”

Source: Churche’s Mansion – Wikipedia

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