North House And Attached Outbuildings

This is a parsonage, parish rooms, trap-shed, and stable, built in 1854 by William Butterfield for the Wykeham estate. The building is constructed of dressed sandstone with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings, with a rear wall to the former Parish Room made of variegated brick in English garden wall bond. It has slate roofs. The structure consists of two parallel ranges, slightly offset, with a projecting lobby and staircase.

The front entrance is a single-story, three-bay range, with the central bay projecting two stories. The entrance, located in the left return of the central bay, features a double door in a plain, chamfered surround with a half-hexagonal head. There is a tall sash window to the ground floor of the central bay, and a two-light mullion and transom staircase window above in a pointed, quoined surround with foiled, pointed heads and trefoils above the upper lights. A four-light window with flat-arched surround and broach-stopped, chamfered mullions is located to the ground-floor right. All windows are tall sashes with foiled, pointed heads, some extending to ground level, and have a relieving arch above.

The right return front has two gable ends, the left projecting beyond the right, and is half-hipped. A four-light window with pointed, foiled lights is set in a flat-arched surround to the right gable wall at ground floor. First-floor windows have pointed, quoined surrounds and are of three lights. The left return front mirrors the right, with a two-light window in a pointed quoined surround to the ground floor of the right gable wall. Tall, narrow sashes are present on the first floor. A three-light mullion window is set into the return wall of the left gable, within a quoined surround, and has a relieving arch above. The varying ridge stacks have steep offsets.

The Parish Room is a single-story section with two steep gables, each featuring a three-light chamfered mullion window, and an end left stack extending from the steeply-pitched roof.

Inside, an open-well staircase has a trefoil-section handrail and turned balusters, which also form a screen beside the stairs leading from the entrance lobby to the hall. Hall doors are of eight recessed panels. A front-right ground-floor room has panelled hung-shutter boxes, a moulded dado rail, and cornice. A front-left ground-floor room has a shuttered window recess with a window seat and built-in bookshelves over a panelled cupboard door. A rear-right ground-floor room features a replacement fireplace with Gothick-arched, panelled jambs and a corbelled mantleshelf, along with panelled hung-shutter boxes. The building displays group value.