St Paul'S Clergy House

This is a vicarage dating from 1859-60, designed by William Butterfield. It's constructed from red brick with stone dressings and brick diaper, covered by a slate roof. The building is an example of High Victorian Gothic architecture, characterized by its narrow, tall design, an L-shaped front, and four storeys plus a basement. It's set back from the street, with the fenestration raised between one, two, and three bays; a gabled wing, one window wide, has a returned window. A segmental arched doorway is framed by a brick tympanum and a two-centred stone arch with a dripstone. Cusped lancets are similarly framed on the ground floor street front of the wing. Sashes are recessed within moulded, cusped headed arches to the ground floor of the set back arm. Above this are three sashes on the first floor, a pair on the second floor, and a plain attic window, with variations, corresponding to those above the doorway. All are dressed with flush stone, spaced with gauged brickwork to the arches, and linked by flush stone impost bands. Weathered stone sill courses are carried across three faces. The front of the gabled wing, above the ground floor, features a single window on the third floor. White brick diaper enlivens areas of blank walling. A saddlestone with a wrought iron cross finial tops the gable of the projecting wing.