Presbytery To Church Of Our Lady Help Of Christians And St Denis

TORQUAY

SX9165 PRIORY ROAD, St Marychurch 885-1/11/443 (South East side) 10/01/75 Presbytery to Church of Our Lady Help of Christians and St Denis

GV II

Presbytery. 1865 to the designs of Joseph Hansom. Snecked local grey limestone with ashlar dressings; slate roof; stacks with ashlar stone shafts, some diagonally-set. PLAN: Deep plan, one-room wide with an entrance adjacent to the priest's door to the church. EXTERIOR: Asymmetrical 3-window front plus one porch bay to the right. Front of house canted with a coped gabled dormer in the centre. Ground-floor windows with paired lancets above a stone transom. Lower windows glazed with 2-pane sashes; first floor centre window similar; outer first-floor windows 2 over 4-pane sashes. Porch block set back to right with a gabled stone porch hood on brackets and plank door with ornamental strap hinges. 3-light stone-mullioned window above. Pyramidal slate roof with sprocketed eaves to end of main house and porch; first-floor moulded string. Left return of presbytery, fronting Priory Road, has a 3-window front with similar windows to the main block and a shallow proejcting stack to the right. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest.

Listing NGR: SX9191165903