The Deanery

The Deanery, along with numbers 7A and 8A, is a 17th-century building that has been altered in the 18th and later centuries. It is two storeys and has an attic. The main part of the front is built of painted brick with raised brick quoins, a moulded stone string course at first-floor level, and a moulded and bracketed eaves cornice. The roof is tiled, with three hipped dormer windows. The front has five windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, although the right-hand window has been altered to create a doorway with a modern, double-glazed secondary door. A six-panel central door features a good knocker, set within a plain 18th-century surround with a dentilled cornice, which is partially obscured by a modern sun blind case. Fluted blocks are positioned at doorhead level. There are tall flanking chimneys; the left-hand one is of rusticated brick and appears modern.

A left-hand extension, under the same roof, has four windows on the first floor, two on the ground floor, and includes a modern garage door and a house door with fielded panels in a modern pilaster surround. Number 8A is also under the same roof and has a rendered front, featuring a canted 19th-century bay window on the first floor with a panelled apron, garage doors on the ground floor, and a modern house door. A lower, colourwashed brick wing extends to the rear and contains three sash windows with intact glazing bars.

The listed buildings in The Close form an outstanding group.