Survey Data
Reg No
13901205
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1890 - 1910
Coordinates
301347, 298681
Date Recorded
02/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built c. 1900. Gable-fronted breakfront to west of south elevation, flat roof porch to south, two-storey return to north. Pitched and hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, rock-faced granite chimneystack, ashlar stone verge coping to gable, cast-iron cross finial; moulded cast-iron gutters fixed to painted timber eaves board, profiled cast-iron downpipe. Rock-faced ashlar granite coursed walling, slightly projecting plinth, ashlar granite string course separating ground and first floors, ashlar granite coping to porch; roughly coursed granite walling to north elevation. Square- and segmental-headed window openings, granite sills, uPVC casement windows, some painted timber one-over-one sliding sash window remain to south and west elevations, one painted timber multiple-pane casement window to north elevation. Square-headed door opening to east of porch, plain-glazed overlight, painted timber door with four raised-and-fielded panels, granite threshold and step to entrance. Yard to north bounded by roughly coursed granite stone wall, painted timber vertically-sheeted double gates give access to yard, square-headed garage opening to north-east. House set back from road, in complex with church, garden to south, entrance to north-east flanked by rock-faced granite gate piers surmounted by pyramidal capping stones.
Appraisal
This parochial house is very robust and masculine in its design, the gable-fronted breakfront on its south elevation is worthy of particular note and is a striking feature. With the school building and Roman Catholic church of Saint Peter's within the same complex, an important architecturally and socially significant group of has been formed and the original site context maintained.