Church House

Church House is a vicarage for the Church of St Mary, now serving as a Diocesan Office. It was built in the early 19th century and features Flemish bond brickwork with cream headers, while the West Walls facade is stucco-faced and rusticated on the ground floor. The building has a hipped, graduated greenslate roof with boxed dormer windows and 19th-century ridge chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a three-bay left return, forming the end part of a terrace. The West Walls facade does not have a doorway and is adorned with sash windows that have glazing bars in plain reveals. The left return features central double panelled doors in a stone surround, topped by a patterned fanlight and sidelights, all set within a curved ground-floor recess. There are sash windows with glazing bars, although those on the right are now blocked on both floors. The interior has not been inspected. Plans for alterations from 1908 can be found in the Cumbria County Record Office, reference Ca/E4/13928.