Old Rectory — Spencer Street

Attached five-bay three-storey townhouse, built 1799, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards having paired timber consoles retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with rusticated rendered piers to ends; rendered walls (porch) on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners supporting projecting cornice on blind frieze on moulded rendered stringcourse. Square-headed window opening in bipartite arrangement (porch) with rendered sill, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from line of street with "Lotus"-detailed cast-iron railings to perimeter centred on "Lotus"-detailed cast-iron gate.