County Council Education Offices And Walls To South

This is a parsonage house and coachyard, later adapted for use as County Council Education Offices. The core structure dates to the 18th century, with significant alterations attributed to Thomas Jones in 1835, executed in a Tudor Revival style. A rear wing is of older construction. The building is primarily of brown brick in an irregular bond, with grey slate roofs, complemented by a Georgian brick rear wing.

The main front is two storeys and six bays, with a projecting coach entrance and porch bay, alongside a window bay. A flush stone plinth increases in depth as the ground slopes to the south. Window openings feature splayed reveals of painted stone, with four-pane casements on the first storey. The coach entrance is framed by boarded and studded double doors beneath a stone-dressed Tudor archway with a hoodmould. The porch also has a framed, boarded and studded door within a stone-dressed Tudor archway with a hoodmould. The second storey features stone-coped gables with kneelers and pineapple finials to the coachway and porch bays, along with stone-dressed dormer gables to the window bays. Four-pane casements are found in the north bay and coachway bay, while six-pane casements are in the remaining bays. The southern garden facade is Georgian, featuring brick bands and flush sashes with flush sills and cambered heads; the first storey has a twelve-pane sash and three sashes, now of four panes, in a canted bay to the east, while the second storey has two twelve-pane sashes and three twelve-pane sashes in the same canted bay. Plinthed chimneys are present, with three divided flues at the north end of the ridge and three chimneys of two flues diagonally set on the ridge and south gable-end.

The interior includes plaster panels in corridors and a stairwell, likely dating to 1835. A closed-string staircase has newels with ovolo arrises and three stout balusters with closely-spaced rings of grooves. Cornices feature in the passages, with panelled embrasures to the lower storey windows of the canted bay, and eared architraves to the upper storey embrasures. Two five-panel doors, one fielded, are also present.

The brick wall with stone coping and boarded door along St Mary’s Hill, south of the building, and the sandstone retaining wall with a brick parapet to the garden terrace south of the building are included as part of the listing. The building forms a cohesive group with St Mary's Hill School and Cottage, and the St Mary's Centre.