1, Milbank Street

SOUTH BANK MILBANK STREET, east side. NZ 52 SW 3/104 No. 1 G.V. II

Presbytery, dated 1881, now used as probation hostel. Brick, moulded with nailhead ornament in upper part of gabled left bay. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Domestic Revival. 2 storeys, and attic storey; 3 bays with projecting semicircular-plan right bay and slightly-projecting left bay. Central renewed door and fanlight in moulded brick pilaster-and-shaped-gable surround with date. Left bay has paired, windows in continuous moulded surround, enriched with fleuron ornament between floors, under paired shaped gables. Similar surround, with moulded sill string and shallow shaped aprons, to window under chamfered slit vent, in gable with obelisk finial. Gabled angle pilaster strips on ground floor, quoins on first floor and broad band between floors. Right bay has paired windows with painted shaped lintels. String course below fleuron-ornamented panels between floors; lotus-ornamented panels form band below moulded eaves cornice under half-conical roof. All windows have renewed casements and painted sills. Mid C20 raking dormer in middle bay. Slightly-truncated transverse stacks with octagonal shafts, that at left end partly rebuilt. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ5324220831