1 St Mary’s Gate

C18 service wing of a now-demolished vicarage converted to parochial offices in the early C21.

MATERIALS: red brick laid in Flemish bond with occasional silver-grey headers. The northern range is rendered. The roof covering is clay tile, and the southern gable is hung with clay tiles.

PLAN: the building is two storeys high and three bays wide. It has a rectangular footprint under a pitched roof. It faces west, with the short gable-end elevation to the south facing onto the adjacent churchyard. To the north is a small off-set range under a separate pitched roof. The building’s east elevation was built up against when the neighbouring Church House was extended in the early C20.

EXTERIOR: the ground level to the west of the building appears to have been raised, meaning the building’s central doorway is slightly below ground level and is reached via a ramped approach. The door is a modern, six-panelled door with a bracketed, timber canopy over it. To either side is a four-light timber casement window with leaded lights under a wide segmental arch.

The first floor has a flat-roofed oriel with a pair of sliding sash windows to the left, a six-over-six sliding sash window with exposed boxes to the right and a blind window to the centre.

The south elevation is a gable end, the gable is tile-hung above a projecting timber eaves cornice. There is a fixed window with glazing bars and segmental arch on the ground floor and a six-over-six sliding sash window with exposed boxes and thick glazing bars on the first floor.

To the north is a small two-storey range. There is a single ground-floor window to the west and a door to the north.