No 5 And Attached Boundary Wall

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SO8454NE DEANSWAY 620-1/16/362 (North East side) 05/04/71 No.5 and attached boundary wall (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (West side) No.105) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (West side) No.105A)

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House, believed to have been a rectory, now offices. Late C18 with later additions and alterations. Red brick under 2-span slate roof with curvilinear parapets to gables. Paired end stacks incorporated in parapets have oversailing details and pots. Painted stone detailing. Cast-iron balconies. Double-front, double-depth plan with central hall and staircase towards rear. Service ranges to rear, incorporating Nos. 105 and 105A High Street. Largely symmetrical elevation. Three storeys plus basement. Five first-floor windows. Stone detailing includes sills, door case, dentilled eaves cornice. 6/6 sashes to ground- and first-floor, pair to left ground-floor extend down to ground level, pair above are similar with balconies in scroll and anthemion design; side-hung casements to second-floor; all in plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches. 2 stone steps to part-glazed door. Doorcase has columns with foliate capitals and fluted rieze with roundels, dentilled cornice; ornate radial pattern leaded fan-light. Decorative louvred shutters to ground-floor windows. 2 storey range to right breaks forward, has curved end to Deansway with curved 3/6 sash to first-floor, further 8/8 sashes, all in plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches. 3-panel door, top and centre raised and fielded, bottom panel flush-beaded. INTERIOR: retains some original details including panelled doors, staircase with square balusters and wreathed handrail, decorative plasterwork. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Approx. 2,3m. high by approx. 30m. long brick wall running from two storey range in a NW direction forming the boundary to Deansway. HISTORICAL NOTE: The 1928 O.S. map indicates 5 Deansway as a Rectory, however the 1886 O.S. map appears to indicate that College Gates (qv) (106 High Street/2 Deansway) was St. Andrews Rectory.