Diocesan House

This is a house, dating to circa 1700, which is now used as offices. It has 20th-century extensions to the rear. The house is constructed of red-brown brick with a wooden eaves cornice decorated with modillions, and a plain-tiled roof. It has a basement, a ground floor, two storeys, and attics. The right-hand side has a C19 gabled dormer with a stack at the right end. A plinth sits below the ground floor, and a plat band runs above it. Six nine-pane sash windows are on the first floor, and five twelve-pane sash windows with four-centred arched heads to the upper lights, linked by gauged-brick keystones, are on the ground floor. The front door is made of six studded panels, set within a projecting, panelled wooden surround that breaks through the plat band and is topped with a cornice hood. There's a nine-pane over-light and panelled reveals. Two basement windows are located to the left and right. A gabled wing is set back to the right, with fishscale pattern tile-hanging in the gable. This wing contains an attic casement window and a glazing-bar sash window with arched upper lights, also breaking through the plat band which steps up to the left. The right-hand return front features three hipped-roof dormers and four cambered-head glazing-bar sash windows below, linked by a sill plat band. The 20th-century extensions to the rear right are not considered to be of particular interest. Photographs of the building are held in the NMR.