Tall Trees

Tall Trees is a large, compactly planned parsonage built in the Gothic style, featuring two storeys and a mix of masonry with contrasting stone types and colours. The grey stones in the mix and the larger stones used as quoins are local limestone, while the window dressings and some contrasting bands in the masonry are made of oolitic limestone. The roof is covered with reddish-grey tiles, and the chimneys are constructed from the same masonry as the walls.

The house has a complex roof design, with a north-south roof intersected by a triple east-west roof. The east side features three gables arranged in an en echelon pattern, while only two of the spans appear as gables on the west (front) elevation. This design gives the house a resemblance to a hall and cross wing plan, highlighted by a gabled porch with a chamfered archway that is offset to the right of the central range. Above the porch, there is a long window with four mullions, and other windows include single lights and paired mullioned and transomed designs, some adorned with trefoiled heads.

The south elevation, which faces the garden, is two windows wide and features the gable of the north-south roof, emphasizing the main room. It has a three-light mullioned and transomed window with a trefoiled head on the ground floor of this gable, along with a mullioned window above. The left-hand bay has simpler windows, but all are equipped with relieving arches. The central gable on the east elevation includes a three-light mullioned and transomed window on each floor, both with relieving arches; the upper window features voussoirs of contrasting stonework. Similarly, the central gable on the north elevation has a three-light mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor and a two-light window above, which includes trefoiled headed lights and an inset quatrefoil panel in the tympanum formed by the relieving arch.