The Parsonage (formerly St Michael's Parsonage)

The former grace-and-favour parsonage for St. Michael’s Home, by William Butterfield, built in 1878, now (2015) a guest house.

MATERIALS: Mendip rubble stone with Bath-stone ashlar dressing and applied timber framing, all under a tile roof.

PLAN: an L-shaped plan, on a north-to-south axis.

EXTERIOR: the building is of two storeys. The garden (south) elevation has five bays; a centre two-storey canted bay flanked on either side by two further bays. The first-floor windows are pitched dormers. One of the ground-floor windows on the right side has been converted into a glass door. All of the windows in this elevation are single lights with horizontal glazing bars. Bands of ashlar run around the building, above and below the ground-floor windows. The main entrance is in the east elevation. There is applied timber faming to the top of the west and east gable ends in the same style as the lodge. To the rear is a single-storey former carthouse and stables. There are three chimney stacks above the main house, with stepped ridge stacks.

INTERIOR: it was not possible to carry out an internal inspection of the building (2015). Recent images of the building show that the timber staircase and many of the original fireplaces survive, in a similar design to those found in the main building.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/09/2015