The Old Deanery, Cathedral School

The Old Deanery, now a cathedral school, was built in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, with alterations to the ground floor in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red sandstone rubble, with a limestone ashlar ground floor. The roof is covered in pantiles. The building has a double-depth plan and includes a basement, three storeys, and an attic. It originally comprised a symmetrical seven-window range, with a matching two-window section to the left. A full-width course of limestone ashlar runs above the first-floor windows. A 19th-century bay is located to the right, featuring a mullion and transom window with five lights on the left and six lights on the right, surmounted by an open Tudor arch with foliate spandrels, a dripstone, gargoyles, and a crenellated parapet that steps up to a central gabled panel displaying a heraldic shield. To the left of this bay is a two-story canted bay with a tiled roof and three-light mullion and transom windows. Most windows are 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames with timber lintels, with taller windows on the first floor. Four hipped dormers with plate-glass casements are present in the roof. The left return has a projecting central section with an exterior stack on the front gable, with a mullion and transom window below and a small 4/4-pane sash window on the second floor. The right return has an irregular three-window range. A 17th-century cross window with a dripstone is located on the first floor, and a 3-light mullion and transom window on the second floor. Various blocked windows are visible above a first-floor drip, including four small semicircular-arched openings, paired second-floor windows with chamfered reveals, and paired third-floor windows with remnants of trefoil heads. The rear elevation is characterized by four gables: the later, wider right-hand gable is largely blind below the second floor, with fragments of arched jambs, a 3/3-pane sash on the second floor, and a small attic window. To the left are an 8/8-pane stair sash on the first floor and a 4/4-pane sash on the second floor. The two left-hand gables exhibit red sandstone ashlar blocks below a drip and two courses of limestone ashlar to the second floor. The roof has gabled ends to the front section and swept eaves, with the four gables extending to the rear. The interior, which connects to the Cathedral School, features mostly 18th-century details, including panelled ground-floor rooms. A rear central stair hall is divided by two elliptical arches on fluted pilasters, the rear one leading to a framed newel stair with continuous newels, an uncut string, and turned balusters with a moulded rail. The attic contains 17th-century collar trusses with butt purlins.