Survey Data
Reg No
40402004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Previous Name
Danesfort
Original Use
Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house
In Use As
Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
237269, 304631
Date Recorded
12/06/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached L-plan six-bay two-storey over basement deanery, built c.1860, having projecting gabled porch, and three-bay side elevation. Double-pile hipped slate roof with internal valley open to side, lead-roll to hips and ridges, eaves supported by stone corbels, tall stone chimneystacks with cornice detail. Pitched roof to porch with cut stone barge coping on moulded corbel, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked and skew-jointed cut-limestone walls with moulded string course and cut sandstone quoins. Two-over-two timber sash windows in square-headed window openings in irregular arrangement with roll-moulded sandstone surrounds and stone sills. Pointed segmental-arched door with raised panels in opening with moulded stone surround, approached by perron of cut stone steps with stone balustrade. Sloped embankment surrounding basement. Rendered outbuilding to north-west. Rendered square-profile piers surmounted by ball finials flanked by low quadrant walls.
Appraisal
An imposing and distinctive deanery, which retains its historic character and form. The bold asymmetrical appearance with irregular fenestration pattern is further enhanced by the contrasting moulded stone surrounds to openings and the robust squared rubble stone walls. The building is of social significance for its long standing use as an ecclesiastical residence, and is an excellent example of the high standard of accommodation built for Church of Ireland clergy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.