Survey Data
Reg No
12303020
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1895 - 1900
Coordinates
245230, 171091
Date Recorded
06/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, dated 1897, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre ground floor, and three-bay two-storey side elevations. Refenestrated. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, yellow brick Running bond chimney stacks having moulded courses supporting cut-limestone chamfered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered, ruled and lined walls with stringcourse to first floor, moulded cornice to porch supporting parapet having date stone, and rendered coping. Pointed-arch window openings to ground floor (one originally in bipartite arrangement to centre side (west) elevation) with square-headed window openings to first floor (paired to centre in quasi-bipartite arrangement) having cut-limestone sills, moulded rendered surrounds, and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining one timber sash window to rear (north) elevation (incorporating trefoil-headed glazing pattern with trefoil-headed overlights, and stained glass panels to margins). Square-headed door opening to porch with cut-stone step, moulded rendered surround, and timber panelled door. Interior with timber panelled reveals/shutters to window openings. Set back from road in grounds shared with Saint Patrick's Catholic Church with pair of cast-iron tapered panelled piers having swept course on stringcourse supporting capping, iron double gates having decorative finials, sections of iron flanking railings on chamfered plinth having decorative finials, and cast-iron tapered panelled terminating piers having swept course on stringcourse supporting capping.
Appraisal
A well-appointed middle-size house incorporating a muted Gothic tone on account of the inclusion of the pointed-arch openings complementing the appearance of the adjacent church (12303013/KK-10-03-13). Retaining the original form and massing together with substantial quantities of the historic fabric both to the exterior and to the interior, the external expression of the composition has nevertheless been compromised by the insertion of inappropriate replacement fittings to the openings: therefore a crucial survival is the fitting to one window opening incorporating a distinctive glazing pattern. An appealing gate screen in early cast-iron introduces an element of design distinction to the partitioned grounds while the resulting ensemble contributes positively to the group and setting values of the Saint Patrick's Catholic Church ensemble..