The Parsonage House

The Parsonage House is a former parsonage, now a house, built in 1875 by William White for the Rev. Enseby Digby Cleaver as the Parsonage to his St Mary's Church in Langdon Hills. It is an asymmetrical Gothic building constructed primarily of red Essex brick in a Flemish bond, with moulded brick and stone dressings, and tiled roofs. The building has four brick chimneystacks. It has two storeys and attics, with an irregular arrangement of windows.

The front of the house features three projecting gables, some of which are tile-hung. The central gable has a plate-traceried sandstone window on the first floor and a triple stone lancet window on the ground floor. A dormer between the central and left-hand gables also has a triple sandstone lancet. Other windows are mainly cambered casements with shouldered architraves. A projecting three-quarter porch is on the right-hand side, and a ground-floor projection with a gable roof extends from the left-hand gable. The building has a plinth of half-round bricks with a moulded drip course above the canted brick plinth.

The rear elevation has a large gable with some tile-hanging, triple casements on the first floor, and triple lancets on the ground floor. A central bay features a triple window to a dormer and a six-light bay under a brick penticed hood on brackets to the ground floor. A conical projection to the left is finished in header bond with lancet windows. The right side elevation has one gable, one semi-dormer, three casement windows, and a door with a penticed hood. The left side displays polychrome brickwork below the eaves, cambered casements, a plain doorcase under a penticed hood, and an attached weatherboarded outbuilding linked by a brick wall.

Inside, the entrance hall features a geometric pattern tiled floor. The staircase has carved and chamfered splat balusters, chamfered newel posts and pendants. The original fireplaces with wooden surrounds remain in the drawing room and first-floor bedrooms, along with shutters and folding window seats in the principal rooms. A conical roof on the rear elevation covers an apsidal-ended chapel on the first floor, built for the Rev. Cleaver's Italian wife, who was a Roman Catholic.