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Cathedral House — Cathedral Place

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Cathedral House — Cathedral Place
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Detached three-bay three-storey stone parochial house, built in 1891, with a single-bay gabled breakfront and a triple-gabled rear elevation and two-storey L-plan return. Pitched gable-ended roof with three perpendicular pitched roofs to rear and a further T-plan pitched roof to the two-storey return. All natural slate with limestone coping to gable ends. Four limestone ashlar chimneystacks with tapering capping stones and clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Coursed random roughly tooled limestone ashlar walls with lime mortar pointing. Fine tooled limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with stone flat arch voussiors, chamfered reveals and lintels. A pointed-arch hood mould to the second floor of each side elevation with recessed panel. This is repeated to the gable breakfront over a bipartite window. Each is flanked by a blank corner niche with Gothic detailing. A further bipartite window opening to the first floor with trefoil heads. uPVC windows throughout. A tripartite arrangement to the ground floor consists of a central pointed-arch door opening with hood mould and similar sidelights. Double-lead tongued and grooved timber door with foliate wrought-iron hinges. Sidelight windows have leaded coloured glass and wrought-iron grilles. Oculus window to north side elevation with quatrefoil stained glass window. Front and rear site enclosed by limestone plinth wall supporting wrought-iron railings.

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