page_title: Sidney Hill Cottage Homes
section_title: Matron's house
hierarchical_section_title: Sidney Hill Cottage Homes / Matron's house
caption_attribution_description: English: Grade II Listed Matron's accommodation at Sidney Hill Cottage Homes, Churchill, Somerset
context_page_description: Sidney Hill Cottage Homes, whose official name is Sidney Hill Churchill Wesleyan Cottage Homes, is a Grade II listed estate of Wesleyan cottage homes in the village of Churchill in North Somerset. It was opened in December 1907 to provide furnished accommodation for people in need. Designed in an Arts and Crafts Vernacular style by Thomas Ball Silcock and Samuel Sebastian Reay FRIBA of Silcock and Reay, architects at Bath and London, twelve cottages were constructed on three sides of a quadrangle, with landscaped gardens. The third, or south side, is enclosed by a low terrace wall with wrought iron gates. A large stone sundial, with a spreading base, is set in the centre of the quadrangle. In their original form, each house had a living room, with a small scullery, larder, coal house, and one bedroom with a large storeroom.
  Sidney Hill, a wealthy local businessman and benefactor, paid for the construction costs and endowed a fund to maintain the homes. Sidney Hill Churchill Wesleyan Cottage Homes, a registered charitable trust and a member of the National Association of Almshouses, continues to manage the homes and provide accommodation for local people in need.
context_section_description: A matron's house was built in the north-west corner of the site, adjoining Front Street, containing two sitting-rooms, a kitchen, three bedrooms, and a bath-room. The matron's house is listed as a Grade II building by Historic England separately from the other buildings on the site. It is one storey building, with a (now converted) attic, constructed from red brick with a plain tiled roof. The windows have three wooden casements with small leaded-panes; those to the attic are under gables. There are two Tudor-arched doorways with plank doors to south and east fronts. There is a wooden round-arched loggia to the east front and a gabled porch to the south front.
caption: Matron's house at Sidney Hill Cottage Homes
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