Church House

MIDDLESBROUGH MARTON ROAD, NZ 52 SW (5020) east side. 2/55 Church House. G.V. II Vicarage, c.1879 by John Norton (London). Now flats. Brick with sandstone and polychrome brick dressings. Welsh slate roofs with fancy clay ridge crestings. 2 storeys, 2 bays, and one-bay canted projecting left cross-wing. Entered from left return. Cusped-headed sash windows, paired in cross-wing and in narrower middle bay, and in groups of 3 in right bay. Transomes and relieving arches on ground floor. Half-hipped half-dormers, with scrolled metal finials, over middle and right bays. 2-span roof, half-hipped at right end of front span; half-pyramidal roof on cross wing; all roofs sprocketed at eves. Corniced transverse ridge and rebuilt left end stacks. 3-window left return of cross wing shows door and overlight in pointed opening; and paired sash windows. 2-storey rear service wing. Unoccupied at time of resurvey. Mid C20 garage, adjoining right end, and former church hall adjoining rear, are not of special interest. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ5011020178