Survey Data
Reg No
11902708
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1850 - 1890
Coordinates
270478, 205317
Date Recorded
04/11/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey presbytery, c.1870, with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bay to left having single-bay single-storey canted bay window to ground floor, single-bay two-storey side elevation to east with single-bay single-storey canted bay window to ground floor and two-bay two-storey return to north to west. Renovated and refenestrated, c.1985. Gable-ended roofs with slate (gabled to advanced end bay). Clay ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roofs to canted bay windows behind parapet walls. Roughcast walls. Painted. Rendered string/sill course to first floor. Roughcast parapet walls to canted bay windows with rendered coping. Tudor-style timbering to gables. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay windows). Stone sills. Rendered sill course to first floor. Replacement aluminium casement windows, c.1985. Replacement uPVC door, c.1995. Replacement aluminium side lights and overlight, c.1975. Set back from road in own landscaped grounds.
Appraisal
Nurney Presbytery is a fine and imposing middle-size ecclesiastical residence that retains much of its original character. Designed in a pared-down Tudor style, the front (south) elevation is little ornamented, but relies on massing and high-pitched roof lines for visual effect. The addition of canted bay windows is an attractive feature. The house retains some original features and materials, including the slate roof, while the re-instatement of timber fenestration might restore a more accurate representation of the original appearance of the house. Set attractively in its own landscaped grounds, the presbytery, albeit removed from the church, forms part of the religious or ecclesiastical centre of the village of Nurney and is therefore of social interest.