The Archdeacon'S House

The Archdeacon's House is a late 18th-century brick house located in Hereford. It features a hipped Welsh slate roof and a brick stack at the rear. The exterior is symmetrical with three storeys and a five-window range. The late 19th-century windows are plain round-headed sashes set under semicircular arches with stone springers and keyblocks. There is a storeyband, and the windows include 6/6 sashes under soldier arches with stone springers. The eaves are moulded wood.

The central entrance has an eight-fielded-panel door with a plain fanlight, all under a gauged brick semicircular arch with stone springers and a keyblock. A projecting moulded wood hood supported by wrought-iron stays flanks the entrance, which is bordered by rusticated brick pilasters and pairs of sashes, along with a storeyband.

On the right side, there is a late 19th-century two-tier bay featuring a tripartite arrangement of 2/2, 4/4, and 2/2 sashes above a French window with a plain overlight, flanked by additional 2/2 sashes. This side also has gauged brick flat arches, a terracotta band, and moulded wood eaves, with obscured storeybands and two 6/6 sashes above.

The left side includes a terracotta band at the first floor and a 19th-century wing with a wood mullion window featuring 4/4 and 4/4 sashes, along with terracotta eaves and a brick stack.

Inside, the house has a late 18th-century dogleg staircase with turned balusters and a wall cupboard. The second floor features three and four-panel doors, a two-panel door, architraves to windows, cornices, and splayed lined reveals. The first floor includes four-panel doors, cornices, panelled risers to windows with architraves, and a late 18th-century wood bolection moulded fireplace. The half-landing has four four-panel doors and one two-panel door, all with architraves, as well as architraves to windows and moulded arches. The ground floor features cornices, a bolection moulded fireplace, two six-panel doors with architraves, and panelled risers with architraves to windows. The front right room has a bolection moulded fireplace, panelling, a cornice, a moulded architrave to the bay window, and four-panel doors. The cellar is stone and brick-lined, with chamfered ceiling beams, brick floors, and two plank doors.