Church of St Joseph and attached Presbytery

This is a Roman Catholic church and attached presbytery, built in 1806 with 20th-century alterations. The exterior is clad in artificial stone with Welsh slate roofs. The church is situated above the presbytery and a former schoolroom, with a staircase wing at the north-west end and a lower two-storey three-bay addition to the presbytery at the east end.

The south side of the church features six keyed round-arched windows on the first floor, with a casement window to the right on each floor. The north side has a 16-pane sash window on the ground floor, followed by a six-panel door with a fanlight in a round-arched artificial stone surround, a side-sliding sash window, a casement window in a square surround, a plaque recording the church's historical importance, a four-panel door with an intersecting tracery fanlight, and two quatrefoils in artificial stone surrounds on the first floor. A projecting gabled wing at the right end has round-arched windows on each floor, the upper one taller to light the staircase, and a gable cross. A leaved four-panel door with a fanlight and intersecting tracery is in the return. The east end of the presbytery has three bays of casement windows with wedge lintels, voussoirs, and fluted keystones, under a hipped stone slate roof.

Inside, the wing’s entrance hall contains an open-well staircase with a wreathed handrail and good cast-iron acanthus balusters, leading to the church and continuing to a west gallery. It features a modillion ceiling cornice and a central acanthus ceiling decoration. The church entrance has leaved doors of six reeded panels in a fluted architrave with corner paterae and panelled door lining. The west end of the church has a gallery with a panelled front and 20th-century infilling below it to form a confessional. The upper west wall has two blind round arches in architraves. The gallery retains some original pitch-pine seating and has a dado. The ceiling above the gallery is coved. The east end's segmental-arched sanctuary apse has pilasters with fluted capitals and round-arched panels. A dove in a patera is in the domical ceiling above. The sanctuary is flanked by an image niche on the left and a matching door on the right. The ceiling includes a dentil cornice and three decorative features of acanthus leaves in scalloped paterae. Late 19th-century benches are present.

The church was built more than twenty years before the Catholic Emancipation Act and replaced the mission church of St Michael on Carleton Green, founded in 1685 by Father Hammerton, S J, of Purston.