Survey Data
Reg No
22126005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1880 - 1920
Coordinates
208106, 117441
Date Recorded
15/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Pair of semi-detached two-bay two-storey presbyteries, built c.1900, with box-bay windows to front with hipped roofs, and slightly recessed single-bay single-storey additions to end elevations, with hipped roofs and moulded eaves courses. Hipped artificial slate roofs, rendered chimneystacks, and moulded red and yellow brick eaves course. Painted rendered walls with red brick quoins, plat-bands at impost and sill levels, cross in circle motif to centre of combined elevation, and rendered plinth. Pseudo-four-centred openings to front and end elevations, paired to end elevations, with red brick voussoirs, having replacement aluminium windows, paired to bay windows, with rendered sills. Square-headed windows to rear elevation, with painted sills. Replacement aluminium doors with red brick surrounds. Rubble limestone piers and walls to site boundary, concrete block wall dividing front gardens, all with flat concrete capping and recent metal gates.
Appraisal
A pair of semi-detached presbyteries is unusual, but there are some features which mark this out as different to a typical semi-detached pair. The cross motif on the wall, the pointed openings, and the proximity to the church - it even has a stile leading into the churchyard - all indicate an ecclesiastical dwelling. The polychromy of yellow and red brick provides textural interest and contrast to the smooth render. Although altered by the addition of extensions to the side, overall symmetry and harmony have been retained, as the extensions are set back from the front elevation and are relatively small and symmetrical.