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presbytery/parochial/curate's house — Lower Exchange Street

presbytery/parochial/curate's house
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presbytery/parochial/curate's house — Lower Exchange Street
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Attached five-bay four-storey over basement former presbytery, built c.1850, having return to rear (south) elevation. Now in use as language school. M-profile pitched roof, hipped to centre of rear pitch, hidden behind brown brick parapet with cut granite coping. Brown brick chimneystacks having clay pots, some cast-iron rainwater goods. Brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond with rusticated granite quoins, cut granite plinth course over smooth rendered walls to basement level. Brown brick walls laid in English garden wall bond to side (east and west) elevations. Square-headed window openings having painted masonry sills, smooth rendered reveals and six-over-six pane and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with moulded masonry surround, Doric columns and entablature supporting recent fanlight over timber panelled door. Cut granite entrance steps to granite platform having cast-iron bootscrape. Basement area and steps enclosed by wrought-iron railings with cast-iron posts on carved granite plinth wall. Situated on south side of Exchange Street Lower and to centre of Essex Quay.

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