St Michael'S House

St. Michael's House, formerly the Registrar's Office, is an office building constructed in 1869. It features a brick structure with stone dressings and a slate roof, designed in the High Victorian Gothic style. The building has an L-shaped plan with two storeys, plus an attic and basement, and six bays on the main elevation.

The basement storey is made of rock-faced stone and has arched window openings. There are stone sill and impost bands, along with a machicolated eaves band below a parapet that displays blue header diaper decoration in the brickwork. The fourth bay projects as a gabled entrance feature, which includes a porch on the ground floor supported by colonnettes, and a pierced stone balcony on the first floor. The first and second floors have three arched windows, with the first-floor windows featuring quatrefoil and cinquefoil plate tracery, and a multi-foiled opening in the gable that is coped. Other windows are typically single or paired arched lights with stone impost blocks and separating columns.

The attic storey has a gabled dormer window on the left, balanced by a large chimney feature on the right, which is flanked by smaller gabled dormer windows. The roof is steeply pitched and adorned with decorative ridge tiles. The other elevations are similarly styled. Inside, many original features remain, including panelled doors with gothic tracery and etched glass, a staircase with turned balusters, and plaster cornices.