presbytery/parochial/curate's house

Attached five-bay two-storey presbytery (curate's house) with dormer attic, c.1900, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre ground floor, and two-bay two-storey lower return to east. Refenestrated. Now in use as nursing home. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat-roof to porch not visible behind parapet. Painted rendered, ruled and lined walls with painted rendered strips to corners to porch supporting rendered band having moulded cornice, and blocking course to parapet. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and replacement uPVC casement windows having timber casement windows to dormer attic. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from line of road.

A well-composed Classically-proportioned substantial house forming an appealing element of the streetscape of The Square. However, although the original form and massing remain substantially intact the inappropriate replacement fittings to the window openings have compromised some of the character of the composition: conversely, the evidence of early timber joinery to the interior enhances the integrity of the site. The house remains of additional importance for the original intended role as an ecclesiastical residence for the local curate associated with the adjacent Catholic Church of Saint Lachtain and Saint Nicholas (12305004/KK-13-05-04).