Survey Data
Reg No
41400901
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
In Use As
Presbytery/parochial/curate's house
Date
1910 - 1930
Coordinates
261058, 337604
Date Recorded
16/04/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey parochial house, built c.1920, having pedimented entrance breakfront, canted bay windows to ground floor front (east), and with two-bay return to rear. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks, terracotta ridge tiles, mixed cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods, and timber bargeboards to breakfront. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls having render plinth course, and block-and-start quoins to front. Square-headed window openings with render sills and replacement uPVC windows. Windows to first floor front in tripartite arrangement. Segmental-headed window opening to first floor of breakfront, having render surround, keystone, sill and replacement uPVC windows with stained coloured glass panels. Gauged-brick round-headed door opening to front having red brick surrounds, foliate moulded terracotta keystone, moulded cornices at impost level, timber panelled door and coloured glass panes to over-light, door opening onto render step. Square-headed door opening to north elevation of return with replacement uPVC door. Double-leaf mild steel gates to north-east of house having square-profile stepped rendered piers with matching railings on rendered plinth wall.
Appraisal
Some elements of this parochial house reflect its relatively late construction date, such as the tripartite arrangement of windows to the first floor and the Art Deco style of the gate piers. Its ecclesiastical function is subtly indicated in the stained-glass panels to the first floor window and overlight while the facade is further enlivened, and given artistic interested, by the moulded keystone to the door.