110a and 112 Entry Hill (the Presbytery to the RC Church of St Peter and St Paul) is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. Former quarry master's house, presbytery.

110a and 112 Entry Hill (the Presbytery to the RC Church of St Peter and St Paul)

WRENN ID
proud-kitchen-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Country
England
Date first listed
5 August 1975
Type
Former quarry master's house, presbytery
Source
Historic England listing

Description

A former quarry master's house built in the late 18th or early 19th century with late 19th century alterations. The building was divided into two dwellings in the early 1950s, with the larger portion becoming the Presbytery to the Roman Catholic Church of St Peter and St Paul in 1954.

The structure is constructed of Bath stone ashlar to the front elevation, with coursed squared limestone rubble to the rear and sides, and a pantile roof. The building follows a single depth plan with a later added toilet out-shut to the rear serving both ground and first floor levels.

The south elevation comprises a central three storey block of three bays with a lower two storey single bay wing attached to either side. The left wing is 110a Entry Hill, while the central block with attached right wing comprises the presbytery at 112 Entry Hill. The entrance to the central block is set beneath a later added stone porch, probably dating from the 1950s, and has a replacement door, as does the entrance to the right wing. The entrance to the left wing has been blocked since the 1950s when a new entrance was created to the rear. The south front windows are all metal replacement sash windows from the 1960s, with the central opening to the third floor being blind. Above the central window sits a small decorative Regency style pediment resting on console brackets. The west gable end has a six-by-six pane sash window to each floor, while the east gable end has two metal sashes of the same type as the front. The rear elevation is largely blind, with small casement windows to the out-shut and windows and door openings to the rear west wing (110a Entry Hill) all introduced during the 1950s. To the rear east, where the building adjoins 106 Entry Hill, the outline of a former attached outbuilding, probably that marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1888, is visible in the stonework.

Attached to the southeast corner of the west wing is a 20th century garage built in stone rubble with a pitched roof, probably replacing an earlier, slightly smaller outbuilding. The west wall of the garage is formed by a section of former garden wall, probably late 18th or early 19th century, which now contains a red Elizabeth II wall post box inserted during the 1960s.

The interior of 110a was not inspected. The interior of the presbytery at 112 Entry Hill retains late 18th and early 19th century as well as late 19th century fixtures and fittings, including panelled doors, moulded architraves and deep skirting boards, with some built-in cupboards surviving.

The narrow entrance hall features late 19th century polychromatic encaustic floor tiles. It contains a late 18th or early 19th century cantilevered stone staircase, enclosed at ground floor level, with a closed string course, stick balusters, a turned newel post and a swept mahogany handrail.

The reception room to the west contains a plain late 19th century marble fireplace with console brackets. The dining room on the opposite side of the hall features a large late 19th century chamfered stone Tudor-arched fire surround and connects with the adjacent kitchen, which contains a tall projecting chimney breast with plain surround to a former range. In one of the top corners of the small utility room adjacent to it, a fragment of a former staircase survives that once led from the kitchen to the bedroom above.

At first floor level, the study west of the landing contains built-in bookcases, possibly late 19th century, to either side of the chimney breast with a modern stove replacing a former fireplace. The smaller study on the opposite side retains a late 18th or early 19th century small timber fire surround with cast-iron grate now missing, and a late 18th or early 19th century built-in cupboard with panelled doors to its left, probably a former doorway leading into the adjacent bedroom. Panelled door linings survive at the other side of the chimney breast. The bedrooms on the top floor retain their late 18th or early 19th century plain timber fire surrounds.

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