Survey Data
Reg No
14927001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Previous Name
The Presbytery
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
260513, 220963
Date Recorded
07/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-storey former presbytery, built c.1760, with return to rear and chapel to north. Extended to south, c.1850, with addition of three-bay two-storey house adjoining front façade of earlier house. Now in use as a private dwelling. Hipped and pitched slate and tiled roof with rendered and red brick chimneystacks and terracotta ridge tiles. Pebbledashed walls with stucco quoins. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and tooled limestone and concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Three-bay former chapel to north with lancet windows. Rendered entrance piers and quadrant walls to roadside.
Appraisal
This mid eighteenth-century former presbytery with adjoining chapel has undergone changes in its form and use that make it almost unrecognizable as the modest presbytery that it once was. A large three-bay two-storey extension was added onto the front of the house in c.1850. Houses are often extended and improved but it is unusual to find an extension built onto the façade of the original house. Although the house is now in use as a private dwelling, the chapel structure has been retained and incorporated into domestic household use. The retention of the chapel as an integral part of the structure's history and as a reminder of the important social function this building played in the local community contributes to the building's historical and social significance.