Survey Data
Reg No
22204201
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1920 - 1940
Coordinates
226298, 157016
Date Recorded
31/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-storey Arts and Crafts style presbytery, built c. 1930, with two-bay elevations, having projecting gable-fronted bay with bay windows to front (south) elevation, and single-storey addition with pitched artificial slate roof to rear. Hipped artificial slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks with stepped and corbelled detailing, cast-iron rainwater goods and decorative cast-iron ridge crestings with finials. Painted roughcast rendered walls with brick plinth and having brick dressings to gable-front. Square-headed openings with timber casement windows, lower window of projecting bay having stained and leaded overlights. Half-glazed timber door to projecting bay and replacement timber and uPVC elsewhere. Outbuilding to site with pitched artificial slate roof and coursed rubble limestone walls. Rusticated limestone boundary walls and rock-faced piers with decorative dressed limestone caps and cast-iron gates to site entrance.
Appraisal
An unusual choice of style for a priests' house, the distinctive massing, roofline and elevations provide architectural interest to the roadscape. Pleasing textural contrast is provided between the roughcast render and the smooth machine-made red brick. The strong vertical emphasis of the tall chimneystacks and the narrow openings is offset by the overhanging eaves and the discrete massing.