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presbytery/parochial/curate's house

presbytery/parochial/curate's house
presbytery/parochial/curate's house
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Detached two-storey L-plan parochial house, built c.1910, having open arcaded loggia to re-entrant corner with doorway facing south, to give overall square plan. Canted bay window to south elevation. Tiled roof, pitched to gabled east elevation, half-hipped to south, and catslide over loggia, with timber eaves and cut limestone chimneystacks. Cut snecked limestone walls and plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone voussoirs and sills, and replacement timber windows. Cut-stone piers and voussoirs to loggia. Encaustic tiles to loggia, with cut-stone steps to south end. Segmental-headed door opening with double-leaf half-glazed leaded coloured glass timber panelled door with leaded coloured glass sidelights and overlights. Square-plan cut-stone piers with cut-stone quadrant walls and concrete block boundary walls.
This unusual parochial house has an asymmetrical elevation and a roof plan that is not untypical of many early twentieth-century buildings. The extensive use of cut limestone gives coherence to the structure. The coloured glass and encaustic tiles, while not overtly ecclesiastical, were commonly used in buildings associated with the church, and enliven the entrance.

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