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Church House — Saint Colman's Hill

presbytery/parochial/curate's house
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Church House — Saint Colman's Hill
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Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey over half-basement parochial house, with dormer attic, built c. 1860, comprising hipped-roofed main block with piano nobile storey, gable-fronted porch approached by flight of steps, with basement entrance underneath, and having two-bay two-storey gabled return to rear, latter with projecting chimneystack to gable. Hipped artificial slate roof with cast-iron rooflight, rendered chimneystacks and sheeted overhanging eaves with carved timber brackets. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front elevation with render quoins and dressed limestone platband dividing basement and ground floor and continuing around porch. Roughcast rendered walls to east and west elevations and rendered walls to return. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills, some blind, others having replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed window openings to return, with replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed openings to porch, infilled to lower sections and having glass windows with concrete sills to upper sections. Round-headed door opening to porch with carved timber panelled door and fanlight, approached by flight of cut limestone steps with decorative cast-iron railings and having scrolled ends to bottom three steps. Square-headed opening underneath with timber panelled half-glazed door. Building sited at right angle to street, with outbuilding to south. Latter has pitched artificial slate roof with render eaves course, rubble stone walls with dressed limestone quoins, square-headed openings, now infilled and with concrete sills, boarded round-headed window opening to west gable with cut-stone sill. Coursed sandstone boundary walls with concrete copings. Squared, roughly dressed limestone square-profile piers with carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Linking cut sandstone wall from north elevation to west boundary wall with square-headed opening having timber battened door.

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