The Old Parsonage

SJ 68 SE ASTON-BY-BUDWORTH C.P. ARLEY GREEN

3/6 The Old Parsonage

5.3.59

GV II

House. c1750. Red Flemish bond brick with stone dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys with an attic and basement. Entrance front: Symmetrical of 3 bays, central doorcase with pilasters and open pediment with fanlight. Door has 6 raised and fielded panels. 3-light casement windows to right and left with 3 similar windows to first floor all with splayed heads and stone sills and all being C19 replacements of taller, narrower C18 sash windows. C20 roundel above first floor central window and 3-light triangle-headed window to central pediment. Wooden frieze and cornice. One storey C19 extension to left. Gable chimney stacks each having 7 tall moulded C19 flues. West side: basement casement windows of 4, 2 and 3 lights. Ground floor windows of 2 lights to right and left and similar to centre. Similar window to first floor right. Two 3-light windows to attic. Abutting walls at right angles to house projecting from corners and terminating in piers and caps with ball finials. Stone kneelers to gable ends. Rear elevation: 3 bays symmetrical. Central doorway with half Ionic columns to either side with an entablature and pediment with dentils. Flight of 5 stone steps below. Door has 2 lower raised and fielded panels with 2 x 4 glass panes above. Basement sash windows to either side of 3 x 2 panes. Ground floor windows of 3 x 4 panes. Stone sills and splayed heads with keystones. Similar windows to right and left of first floor with similar window to centre, altered this century, of 3 x 6 panes (originally 3 x 4 panes). Two 3-light dormer casement windows. C20 gun room extension to right.

Listing NGR: SJ6821880837