Churche's Mansion

Churche's Mansion
Churche's Mansion in 2007
Location	Nantwich, Cheshire, England
Coordinates	53°03′56″N 2°30′52″W / 53.06548°N 2.51431°W / 53.06548; -2.51431
Built	1577
Built for	Richard Churche
Current use	Restaurant
Architectural style(s)	Elizabethan
Website	churchesmansion.co.uk
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name	Churche's Mansion
Designated	19 April 1948
Reference no.	1039605[1]
Location in Cheshire

Churche's Mansion is a timber-framed, black-and-white Elizabethan mansion house at the eastern end of Hospital Street in Nantwich, Cheshire, England. The Grade I listed building dates from 1577, and is one of the very few to have survived the Great Fire of Nantwich in 1583.

Built for Richard Churche, a wealthy Nantwich merchant, and his wife, it remained in their family until the 20th century. In 1930, it was rescued from being shipped to the US by Edgar Myott and his wife, who began restoration work. As well as a dwelling, the mansion has been used as a school, restaurant, shop, and granary and hay store.

The building has four gables to the front; the upper storey and the attics all overhang with jetties. The upper storeys feature decorative panels, and the exterior has many gilded carvings. The principal rooms have oak panelling, some of which is Elizabethan in date. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner considered Churche's Mansion to be among the best timber-framed Elizabethan buildings in Cheshire,^[2] describing it as "an outstanding piece of decorated half-timber architecture."^[3]