Survey Data
Reg No
21812013
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1870 - 1890
Coordinates
168096, 123204
Date Recorded
09/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Detached irregular-plan three-bay two-storey presbytery, built c. 1880. Having turret to first floor and bay window to front (east) elevation. Two-bay two-storey extension to rear (west) elevation. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, brick chimneystacks having limestone cornices and double-banded red and yellow brick eaves course. Lead roof to turret. Pitched slate roof to rear extension. Snecked rusticated sandstone walls having yellow brick quoins and limestone stringcourse. Buttress to front with limestone dressings. Square-headed bipartite and tripartite openings with tooled limestone surrounds, mullions, sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Yellow brick relieving arch over first floor tripartite window having herringbone brick coursing. Square-headed window openings to turret with tooled limestone surrounds and sills. Paired camber-headed window openings to rear extension having red brick block-and-start surrounds and limestone sills. Pointed arch opening having yellow brick surround, hoodmoulding and limestone impost course with carved stops over Y-tracery glazed overlight and timber panelled door. Eight-bay two-storey outbuilding to south-west having pitched slate roof. Roughly-dressed sandstone walls with tooled limestone quoins. Camber-headed openings to ground floor with red brick block-and-start surrounds, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed openings to first floor having brick block-and-start surrounds and timber fittings. Camber-headed openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and timber battened half-doors. Square-headed carriage arch having red brick block-and-start surround and replacement metal door. Pair of rusticated limestone square-profile piers to east with carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Rubble and snecked sandstone walls having render copings and cast-iron railings. Pair of cut limestone square-profile piers to west with crenellated caps and double-leaf metal gates. Rubble sandstone boundary walls to site.
Appraisal
The complex plan and irregular roofline of this presbytery are characteristic of late Victorian architecture. Distinguished by its use of differing and high quality materials, the building displays skilful stonework as seen in the limestone surrounds, sills and mullions as well as interesting use of brick details, which add chromatic and textural contrast to the façade. The house forms part of a group of related ecclesiastical structures with the adjacent Saint Andrew's Catholic Church (see 21812014). As it was built contemporaneously with the church, which was designed by George Coppinger Ashlin (1837-1921), it is likely that the presbytery was designed by Ashlin as well.