Presbytery attached to the Church of St Joseph, Sheringham

Presbytery of the Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph, built in 1911 to designs by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

The presbytery is constructed of red brick laid in six courses of stretchers and two courses of headers, with a plain tile roof. It is L-shaped on plan and attached to the east side of the weekday chapel of the Church of St Joseph.

The building is two-and-a-half storeys in height with a pitched roof gabled to the north and south. A two-storey projection extends to the east with an M-profile pitched roof. Two tall red-brick chimneystacks rise from the roofs: one on the ridge of the main roof and one on the southern ridge of the projection.

All windows and doors have stone dressings. Windows throughout feature flat-arched stone lintels, central mullions, chamfered sills and two leaded lights unless otherwise stated.

The front (north) gable is two-and-a-half storeys high and carries a carved stone cross finial. It has a single window to each level, diminishing in size with height; the ground floor window has six mullioned and transomed lights. To the right of the gable, a red-brick screen wall with a single low crenelation and stone dressings provides side access via an ogee arch with a double chamfered-brick surround and stone keystones.

The east side elevation features an ornately-carved ogee-arched door surround containing a flat-headed double-leaf timber-boarded door. To the left is a four-light mullioned and transomed window, with two further windows at first-floor level. A shallow single-storey projection to the ground floor contains a six-light mullioned and transomed window with two windows above. To the left of the building, a flat-arched stone door surround with two inflex arches to its lintel contains a timber-boarded door providing access to the garden store and rear garden.

The rear (south) gable has a single window to each of its ground, first and attic storeys; the ground floor window has six mullioned and transomed lights, the first floor window has three mullioned lights. The east projection has a four-light mullioned and transomed window to the ground floor and a window to the first floor. A single-storey arch projects east from the south-east corner, providing access from the side and shelter for the garden store.

The west elevation facing the Church of St Joseph is two storeys high with a central ornately-carved ogee-arched door surround containing a flat-headed timber-boarded door with replacement door furniture. To the left and right are single bays of windows; the left ground-floor window has four mullioned and transomed lights, the bay to the right of the door being one light wider.

The presbytery contains two sacristy rooms, a dining room, kitchen, scullery and two pantries on the ground floor. The first floor has a sitting room, two bedrooms and a modern kitchen, with attics above.

The stair hall, priests' sacristy and servers' sacristy at the north end of the ground floor have terrazzo floors with a black marble margin. The priests' sacristy retains a plain classical fireplace with a marble surround on its south wall. A similar fireplace survives on the east wall of the dining room, but with a tiled surround and panelled overmantel. The dining room floor has square oak parquet panels.

The building retains its original two-panel wooden doors and ornate window furniture throughout. The original stair survives with square newel posts and tapered finials, plain stick balusters and a moulded handrail.

The kitchen retains a high proportion of two-panelled and half-glazed doors and cupboards to its scullery, pantries, store rooms and back porch. The two first-floor bedrooms each retain a plain classical fireplace with decorative floral tiled surround; one retains a decorative cast-iron grate. The south section of the attic has timber floorboards and cupboard doors to the eaves.