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Detached L-plan gable-fronted two-bay three-storey former verger’s house, built c.1890, having gable-fronted front (east), rear (west) and south elevations. Curved north-west corner, entrance to re-entrant corner to south-east. Flat-roofed box bay window to front elevation. Now in use as museum. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystack, carved granite coping to barges with sandstone dressings, cast-iron rainwater goods, and carved red brick eaves course. Calp limestone walls with dressed sandstone quoins. Cut sandstone box bay window to front, with carved sandstone coping and string course. Square-headed window openings with chamfered reveals, carved sandstone mullions, and replacement leaded windows. Square-headed single, bipartite and tripartite windows with cut sandstone chamfered surrounds, mullions and sills, having replacement leaded windows. Pointed arch door opening to front, with carved sandstone hood moulding terminating in stops, chamfered sandstone surround, and steel door approached by granite step. Garden to rear, having calp limestone boundary wall. Set in grounds of Synod Hall of Christchurch Cathedral.
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