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Saint Michael's — Saint Michael's Road

presbytery/parochial/curate's house
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Saint Michael's — Saint Michael's Road
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Detached five-bay two-storey presbytery, extant 1863, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay full-height gabled breakfront abutting single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey return (east). Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront); pitched slate roof (east), clay ridge tiles, grouped (north) or paired (south) rendered chimney stacks on rendered bases having cut-granite "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, trefoil-detailed timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered "Cavetto" cornice retaining cast-iron square profile downpipes. Rendered walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Pointed-arch central window opening (breakfront) with cut-granite sill, timber Y-mullion, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and moulded rendered surrounds with "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed hood mouldings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sill course, and moulded rendered surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of street in landscaped grounds with fluted piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron gate.

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