Survey Data
Reg No
41400718
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1900 - 1920
Coordinates
270979, 342076
Date Recorded
13/04/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey parochial house, built c.1910. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Red brick walls having red brick plinth course, and impost courses to first and ground floors. Continuous sandstone sill course to first floor windows. Gauged-brick segmental-headed window openings with masonry sills, terracotta keystones, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Gauged-brick round-headed door opening to front (west) elevation having timber panelled door and plain glazed fanlight, flanked by stone Doric-style columns on plinth bases, with hood-moulding over, and door opens onto platform with two nosed steps. Yard of red brick outbuildings to rear of house, with red brick boundary wall. Pair of square-plan red brick gate piers to north-west of house with tooled limestone capping, string course, and chamfered corners, flanking double-leaf cast-iron gate having matching railings on red brick plinth wall.
Appraisal
Victorian in appearance despite its late date, this parochial house is enlivened by a number of features, most notably its timber sliding sash windows, string courses and hood-mouldings, which provide architectural and decorative interest. It is pleasantly sited with lawns to the front and a yard of outbuildings, and mature trees to the rear.