St Martin'S Vicarage

BRIGHOUSE CHURCH LANE (OFF) SE 12 SW Brighouse 3/52 St. Martin's Vicarage G.V. II

Large vicarage. 1840. Hammer-dressed stone, slate roof. 2 storeys. Vernacular Revival. South-east front has 'F'-plan of 4 bays. 2nd bay breaks forward in the form of 2-storey gable porch with depressed tudor arched doorway over which is tablet in form of open scroll inscribed: 'ADMDCCCXL'. Arched light over and gable with open work cusped barge boards and drop finials with finial to apex. 4th bay has similar gable. Windows are mostly tall with chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds. lst and 3rd bays have shaped dormers. Left hand return wall of 2 bays. 1st bay has large 3-light mullioned window with cruciform glazing central light broken through to form doorway. Over is similar dormer. At 1st floor between the bays is projecting canted window. 2nd bay is under plain gable (having lost its decorative barge boards) and features stepped light to 1st floor with shield set in a square in the gable. Roofed with fish- scale slates. 3 tall stacks with diagonally set chimneys. The vicarage forms a group with the church and school unchanged since 1840 as an engraving illustrates.

Listing NGR: SE1430723091