No 5 And Attached Boundary Wall

No. 5 Deansway is a house, believed to have been a rectory, dating to the late 18th century and subsequently altered. It is now offices. The construction is red brick with a 2-span slate roof, featuring curvilinear parapets to the gables. The paired end stacks, incorporated into the parapets, have oversailing details and decorative pots, with painted stone detailing and cast-iron balconies. The building follows a double-front, double-depth plan, incorporating a central hall and staircase towards the rear, alongside service ranges extending to the rear, incorporating Nos. 105 and 105A High Street.

The symmetrical elevation spans three storeys plus a basement and has five first-floor windows. Stone detailing includes sills, a doorcase, and a dentilled eaves cornice. The ground and first floors have 6/6 sash windows, with a pair on the left ground floor extending to ground level, a matching pair above with balconies in scroll and anthemion designs. Side-hung casements are fitted to the second floor. All windows are set within plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches. Two stone steps lead to a part-glazed door, which is set within a doorcase featuring columns with foliate capitals, a fluted frieze with roundels, a dentilled cornice, and an ornate radial pattern leaded fanlight. Decorative louvred shutters are fitted to the ground-floor windows. A two-storey range to the right projects forward and has a curved end to Deansway with a curved 3/6 sash to the first floor, alongside further 8/8 sashes, all within plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches. A three-panel door, with raised and fielded centre and top panels and a flush-beaded bottom panel, completes the facade.

Internally, original features remain, including panelled doors, a staircase with square balusters and a wreathed handrail, and decorative plasterwork.

A brick boundary wall, approximately 2.3 metres high and 30 metres long, runs from the two-storey range in a north-westerly direction, defining the boundary to Deansway.

Historical records indicate that the 1928 Ordnance Survey map identifies No. 5 Deansway as a rectory. However, the 1886 Ordnance Survey map suggests that College Gates (106 High Street/2 Deansway) was St. Andrew’s Rectory.