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Summary

Description

1870, with additions by J P Alison 1903. 2-storey 3-bay snecked cream sandstone gabled manse, with polished ashlar dressings, chamfered arrises. base course

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-storey 3-bay; 2-leaf panelled door at centre with rectangular fanlight in corniced ashlar doorframe; window above touching eaves, with cill. To left, later full-height canted window breaking eaves with moulded cornice to both floors, and projecting eaves. To right, advanced gabled bay with large ashlar mullioned tripartite windows to both floors; moulded string course above ground floor, upper window with hoodmould stepping over date plaque, 1870.

NE (CHURCH FORECOURT) ELEVATION: single broad bay above raised basement. Door at ground (basement) level, tall windows above. Church offices adjoin to right.

SW ELEVATION: blank rendered gable end to right with gablehead stack, to left advanced 2-storey 2-bay rendered rear extension (probably Alison). At ground, large kitchen window to left, single window to right; at 1st floor, pair of timber mullioned bipartite corner windows, and cill course.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: irregular rendered rear facade of addition; bipartite window at ground at centre with wallhead stack above; back door to left. Corner window to right of 1st floor 8see above, single window to left. Adjoins rear of church offices to left.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, flat ashlar skews, moulded skewputts to front gable. Rendered stacks with ashlar facings and copings, some original octagonal cans. Cast-iron downpipes and rainwater heads to front.

INTERIOR: simple decoration.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: to High Street; square stugged ashlar gatepiers with flat pyramidal caps as Church, rendered wall with flat ashlar coping.

Statement of Special Interest

The manse bounds the forecourt of Trinity Church (see separate listing), and is grouped for that reason.

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