Spring Grove

A pair of houses, dating to circa 1870, incorporating elements of an earlier 18th century building, which was once the vicarage. The houses are constructed of coursed squared stone, with older coursed squared rubble at the left side and on the first two floors, and a brick rear return to the right. The roof is of graduated Lakeland slates with stone gable copings and chimneys. The houses are two storeys and an attic, with a four-window front and a lower, two-storey, two-window rear wing on the right return. Some Gothic Revival detailing is present.

Steps lead up to a renewed glazed door with a shaped overlight within a chamfered surround, featuring quoined jambs and a two-centred arched head under a hoodmould. Corniced canted bay windows are present in the outer ground-floor bays, with plain sashes. Similar sashes are found in paired windows to the right of the door and above the canted bays, and single windows on the central first floor, all with broach-stopped chamfers to the stone surrounds. Plain stone surrounds define the sashes in the hipped dormers that break the eaves in the first, third, and fourth bays. The right return has two plain sashes on each floor and attics matching the front range. To the side of the return, a gabled Gothic entrance leads to No. 66, featuring a three-light stone-mullioned window in a one-story range with a set-back first floor of older brick. This section has an inserted 20th century door flanked by four-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds, and a hipped roof.

Inside No. 66, the entrance hall has geometric floor tiles and a decorative Frosterley “marble” shelf. The principal room contains a marble chimney piece. The building was shown as the Parsonage House in 1827 and served as the vicarage to the Church of St Mary before the construction of the later Vicarage.