Presbytery to East of Roman Catholic Church of Christ Church and Walls Around Garden to North of Presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. Presbytery.
Presbytery to East of Roman Catholic Church of Christ Church and Walls Around Garden to North of Presbytery
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Eltham and Chislehurst MP: Clive Efford (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- Presbytery
- Address
- Presbytery to East of Roman Catholic Church of Christ Church and Walls Around Garden to North of Presbytery, Eltham High Street Se9
- OS grid reference
- TQ 432 744
- Coordinates
- 51.45106, 0.0605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Presbytery to East of Roman Catholic Church of Christ Church and Walls Around Garden to North of Presbytery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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