Presbytery To East Of Roman Catholic Church Of Christ Church And Walls Around Garden To North Of Presbytery

The property comprises a two-part presbytery, located to the east of Christ Church Roman Catholic Church, along with garden walls to the north of the presbytery. The eastern section dates to the early 18th century, while the western section was built in the early 19th century. The street facade was unified, likely when the later section was constructed.

The building is two storeys and has an attic, presenting five windows to the street. It features a tall mansard roof covered with Westmorland slate, incorporating five flat dormers. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars. The exterior is of yellow stock brick, with a stone cornice and a stone-coped brick parapet. Stone balustrades are positioned in front of the dormer windows. Gauged, flat brick arches frame the first-floor windows. The window arrangement includes one original sash with glazing bars, two replaced sashes, one modern casement, and one bricked-up window. A projecting conservatory is situated on the left side of the ground floor, alongside a late 19th-century square bay. A single early 19th-century sash window with glazing bars sits between the bay and the central doorway. The replaced doorway has a cornice head and fanlight, covered by a prostyle wooden porch accessed by four stone steps. Fluted columns, featuring paterae in the necking, support an entablature with a wrought iron balcony.

The older, eastern section is two storeys and has an attic under a pediment-like gable with a lunette. It features a central round arched window. The brickwork is multicoloured stock brick with red brick dressings. It has three windows with renewed sashes and glazing bars set within old flush frames. A heavy, bracketed cornice hood shelters the front door. The western section is two storeys and has an attic with a single window and is constructed of yellow brick. The ground-floor window is segment-headed with a gauged brick arch.

Inside the older section, an early 18th-century staircase features a cut and carved string, two turned balusters with square knops per tread, and a ramped handrail. An original fireplace surround consists of a flat, wide, shouldered marble slab with moulded borders is also present. The newer section contains a large ground-floor room with an enriched plaster cornice and a carved marble fireplace surround, complete with inner ironwork.

Garden walls, thought to be of 16th or 17th century origin, surround the garden to the north of the presbytery. These walls have largely been restored in their upper courses but exhibit traces of original sloped coping on their outer north face, possibly dating to the gardens of Eltham House (circa 1664). A separate wall, located approximately six yards east of the east garden wall and running parallel, defines the eastern boundary of the church’s land. A 20th-century rustic arch, constructed with shells, broken brick, flint, and aggregate, is incorporated in the north wall.