St Wilfrids Presbytery (Part) And Attached Railings

St Wilfrid's Presbytery is a pair of townhouses, now part of a presbytery, built around 1840. They were constructed in the gap between Nos. 1 and 4 on Winckley Square and have been altered over time. The buildings are made of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. They have a double-depth plan, with each house being single-fronted.

The presbytery stands three storeys high over cellars, featuring three bays on each side, designed as a reflected pair. The ashlar basement acts as a plinth, with a sill-band at the first floor that continues from No. 1 to the left, a plain frieze, and a moulded gutter cornice. The doorways in the outer bays are accessed by four steps and have moulded architraves, dentilled cornices on consoles, and rectangular overlights. The windows are shorter on the first floor and both lower and shorter on the second floor compared to those of No. 1 and No. 4. They have raised stone sills and gauged brick heads, with sashed windows featuring 12, 15, and 12 panes on the respective floors. The first-floor windows are adorned with small segmental cast-iron balconies that have hooped railings, matching those of No. 1. No. 2 includes a 20th-century flat-roofed attic dormer.

Each house has two cellar windows; those at No. 2 are protected by iron gratings, while those at No. 3 have been altered to serve as ventilation louvres. Both houses feature area railings made of cast-iron bars with fleur-de-lys heads, with the ends returned to the doorways. The rear of the properties has various additions.

Inside, both houses have extensive cellars, doglegged staircases with stick balusters and wreathed mahogany handrails, and egg-and-dart cornices in the entrance halls and stairwells. The first-floor front rooms boast fine moulded plaster cornices with decorative bands of bobbin-and-reel, leaf-and-dart, and egg-and-dart motifs.