The Priests House And Atached Garden Walls And Gate Piers

The Priest's House, along with its attached garden walls and gate piers, is a building that dates back to the 17th century and was later extended and remodeled by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin around 1843. It is constructed of ashlar stone featuring herringbone tooling and some edged work, topped with a plain tile roof that has crested ridge tiles and coped verges. The building has both an external end stack and a lateral external stack.

The structure is oriented northwest to southeast, with the original 17th-century house on the left and a 19th-century extension on the right that has a higher ridge. The 17th-century house is two storeys high with two bays, featuring chamfered mullioned windows. The ground floor windows have a continuous hood mould, and there is a central gabled porch with a stone slate roof and a blocked doorway that has a cambered arch.

The 19th-century extension is also two storeys but has an irregular facade. The windows on the left side of both floors have three 4-centred arch lights beneath a square head, with sunken spandrels and returned hood moulds. There is a similar single-light window on the ground floor to the right. The central gabled porch has a stone slate roof and a 4-centred doorway with panelled spandrels and a half-glazed door. A lateral chimney stack is positioned to the right of the centre.

Coped garden walls enclose the front and rear gardens, and there are a pair of gate piers at the southeast corner of the front garden. These gate piers, made of rusticated rock-faced ashlar with pyramidal caps, provide access to the Hospital of St. John, The Castle, and St. John's Preparatory School.