Old Deanery Court With Link Wall Along East Side

The Old Deanery Court is a former house, now offices, dating from the 15th century. It was refenestrated in the 16th century and altered in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of random stone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with coped gables. It is a single-depth, first-floor hall plan, with a through passage to the left and a lateral fireplace to the rear of the upper hall.

The exterior is two storeys high with irregular fenestration arranged over six bays. A 20th-century three-light window is located in the lower bay one. The ground floor bays two, four, five, and six, and the first floor to the right of bay two have two-light chamfered mullioned windows. Two-light transom windows, with pointed-arched upper lights under square labels, are positioned between bays four and five, and in bay six. Bay three contains a reused moulded four-centre arch, set within a former throughway, covered by a timber lintel. A battlemented parapet masks the roof to bays one, two, and three, with a vertical straight joint between bays one and two. The building is thought to have originally been a separate house.

The ground floor interior features probable early 16th-century moulded beams, likely forming compartments in the original layout. A stone four-centred doorway opens to the rear at the east end. The upper hall, now subdivided, has a roof in five bays with heavy arch-braced collars, chamfered purlins, and wind-bracing. The end bay exhibits an upper cruck, adjacent to a full-height wall inserted in the through-passage. The third bay at the back has a stone fire surround.

A lower battlemented rubble wall extends from the south-east corner, featuring a central four-centre-arched gateway. This links into a gateway located on the south side of the courtyard. The wall and building form part of a larger complex long associated with the Cathedral and its administration. A link wall along the east side was separately listed in 1972.