32 Watermoor Road

32 Watermoor Road is a parsonage built in 1898 to designs by Waller and Sons of Gloucester, designed in Tudor Gothic style. The building is constructed of rock-faced limestone with ashlar limestone dressings and rock-faced stone stacks, with plain clay tile roofs.

The house is planned on a T-shaped layout, with a large main range and rear wings, and an attached service court to the north. It rises to two storeys and attic, with the main elevation facing east. The building is constructed from rock-faced stone squared and brought to course, sitting on a similarly-constructed plinth with one offset. The deep roofs have slightly swept eaves.

The fenestration consists mainly of stone mullioned and stone mullioned and transomed windows; those to the ground floor have relieving arches overhead. The main elevation to the west is arranged in three broad bays. The central entrance bay projects slightly forward and rises to a gable at the attic level, with high, coped verges carried on moulded kneelers. A buttress to the left of this bay has two offsets. The entrance is a four-centred-arched opening with moulded arch, leading to an open porch with an ogee hood mould with elaborate scrolling foliate stops, surmounted by an attached cross and three carved floral roundels, all executed by Henry Frith of Gloucester. Set back within is a multi-paned, half-glazed internal storm porch with diamond-pattern leaded glazing and coloured margins, and panelling below; the entrance door is similarly half-glazed and set in the right return. To the right of the doorway is an arched transomed window. The first-floor window is mullioned and transomed; high in the gable is a single light with a flat-arched drip mould. The moulded coping to the gable is surmounted by a moulded finial, with a stack with moulded capping rising to its right. The flanking bays each have a four-light mullioned and transomed window to the ground floor with relieving arches. A moulded string course divides the ground and first floors. The first-floor windows are set under the eaves and have two lights with stone mullions.

The left return has a broad gable with cross wing extending to the left. The ground floor here has a canted bay window with parapet to the right and windows of one, two and three lights elsewhere, the string course continuing around the building and terminating as a hood mould over the left window. High in the gable is a timber box window of three lights, above which the apex is hung in fishscale clay tiles. The right return elevation has a four-centred-arched doorway to the right, providing access for parishioners to the parson's office. The half-glazed panelled door has a shaped overlight with leaded glazing and a matching side panel. The windows are similar to those on the left return, and the apex is treated identically with a timber box window and tile hanging. A cross wing is set back behind the plane of the gable end.

A screen wall with timber gate extends northwards from the corner of the main range, with a parapet wall with ramped end, screening the service court. The service court has brick walls to the west and north sides and a modern uPVC window to one range. The other range includes an open-fronted store and privy, under flat roofs covered in bitumen felt. The rear elevation is irregular, with two cross-wings each of two storeys extending forward from the main range, with a two-storey outshut between them. Below this is a canted half-bay porch with uPVC entrance door, and a single-storey kitchen range extending from the left-hand cross-wing. Stacks rise from the junctions of the wings and main range, with a wide, three-light dormer set on the roof slope between them. The windows in this elevation have been replaced in uPVC, in the original openings, roughly replicating the pattern of the earlier glazing. To the left of the kitchen bay extends the rear wall of the service range, with one new window opening housing a uPVC window, and one retained narrow single-light window with arched top and leaded glazing.

The interior retains its four-panelled doors, moulded architraves, varied fireplaces and skirting boards, with picture rails remaining in the principal rooms. The windows other than those to the rear elevations have deeply chamfered stone mullions and transoms internally, housing metal casements with decorative Gothic window furniture and secondary glazing.

The ground floor is arranged on a pinwheel plan, with principal rooms and the main stair ranged off a central entrance hall. The hall has arched timber openings to the porch and stair, the timberwork panelled and moulded. The floor is laid with herringbone red tile with polychrome Minton tile margins. To the right is the former curate's office and study, which has an original fire surround with recent black and white hearth tiling. This room is accessed from the main hall and also from the secondary hall, which was constructed as the parishioners' waiting room. This secondary hall has a herringbone woodblock floor and is screened from the family area by a glazed partition and door with obscure glass. A later doorway in the opposite wall gives access to a small cloakroom, originally a pantry.

Off the opposite side of the main hall is the drawing room, which has a canted bay window and a classical fireplace with replacement tile inserts. To the rear, the rooms in the rear wings are accessed through doors set at a 45 degree angle at either side of the arched opening to the enclosed main stair, over which is a moulded timber arch. To the rear of the drawing room is the sitting room, originally the dining room, which has a timber fire surround with turned details to the shelves and a shallow arched niche to the right of the chimney breast. A door leads to the rear hall, floored in quarry tile and including the obscure glazed screen to the parishioners' hall at the foot of the secondary stair. The secondary stair has plain stick balusters and a square-section newel post with ball finial and lambs' tongue stops. The rear hall leads back into the kitchen, which retains its high fire surround with mantelshelf carried on plain curved brackets; the fixtures and finishes are modern. The kitchen leads into the utility room within the service court, originally the scullery, off which is the pantry retaining its slate shelving. Both have quarry tiled floors.

The main and secondary stairs rise parallel to each other and both arrive at a common half-landing, off which is a bathroom at mezzanine level, lit by offset windows to the stairwell. The stair then turns through 90 degrees for the last half-flight, which has newels matching those on the secondary stair and turned and stick balusters which continue to form a balustrade on the galleried landing.

The first floor rooms retain all their fire surrounds, these are mainly a single timber design with moulded surround and recessed panels below the mantelshelves, but one includes delicate foliate moulding and curved edges in a broadly Art Nouveau style. The attic rooms have exposed purlins and struts; two of the three rooms have small cast-iron fireplaces with decorative panels and moulded shelves.

An attached garage was added in the 1960s and is not included in the listing.