presbytery/parochial/curate's house

Detached three-bay two-storey presbytery, built c. 1880, with gabled breakfront to front (west) elevation and two-storey extensions to rear, comprising hipped-roofed return, gabled block and lean-to. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Render coping and high cross style finial to breakfront gable. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plinth and render trefoil motif to breakfront gable. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills to ground floor and render sill course to first floor, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening with rendered surround incorporating bracketed pediment with cross finial, overlight, cut limestone threshold and square-headed replacement timber panelled door. Outbuilding to south with pitched slate roof and roughcast rendered walls, arrow slit and square-headed openings, one having remains of timber sliding sash window, others having metal fittings. Rendered square-profile gate piers and wrought-iron double-leaf gates to south. Rendered boundary walls with rendered sweep walls., square-profile gate piers and cast-iron double-leaf gates.

Imposing parochial house, employing religious decorative motifs. The survival of the well-executed timber sliding sash windows, render doorcase and high cross pinnacle reveal a coherent and proportionally balanced façade. Located to the north of the Roman Catholic church, it occupies a pleasant site in the landscape.