Survey Data
Reg No
15317023
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1860 - 1870
Coordinates
218423, 238395
Date Recorded
08/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house built, c.1867, having an advanced gable-fronted bay to the north end of the main façade (east), a gable-fronted bay to the south end of the main façade and a central gable-fronted single-bay entrance porch. Two-storey return to the rear (west). Pitched slate roofs having two rendered chimneystacks, aligned parallel to roof ridge, and a gablet to the centre, above porch. Roughcast rendered walls over a chamfered cut stone plinth with rasied quoins to the corners. Exposed sandstone construction to projecting porch. Square-headed window openings to the ground floor with three-over-three pane timber sash windows with decorative heads. Hoodmouldings over ground floor window openings. Tudor-arched window openings over to the first floor with three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Cut stone sills throughout. Tudor-arched doorcase to porch with flush cut stone dressings and a timber panelled door. Flight of two curved stone steps to the front (east). Set back from road in shared mature grounds with associated Roman Catholic church to the east (15317024). Located to the centre of Moate, to the east end of Church Street.
Appraisal
An appealing and well-detailed Roman Catholic parochial house, which retains its early character, form and fabric. The pointed-segmental headed openings, the tripartite timber sash windows (mimicking mullioned and transomed windows), the hoodmouldings and the varied roofscape with projecting gables, help to give this building a subdued Tudor Gothic character. This building forms an important pair of related structures with the associated Roman Catholic church to the east (15317024) and may have been built to designs by the same architect, William Caldbeck (1824-1872). However, this composition lacks the architectural conviction of the church itself and it is built in a different style. The cast-iron railings to the north (see 15317024) complete the setting of this appealing composition, which is an integral element of the built heritage of Moate.