Description

The following building shall be added to the list:-

TQ 68 NE THURROCK, FORMER UD OLD CHURCH HILL
Langdon Hills

2/10010 The Parsonage House

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Former parsonage, now house. Built in 1875 by William White for the Rev. Enseby Digby Cleaver
as the Parsonage to his St Mary's Church Langdon Hills. Asymmetrical Gothic building of red Essex
brick mainly in Flemish bond with some moulded brick and some stone dressings and tiled roofs
with 4 brick chimneystacks. Two storeys and attics, irregular fenestration. Entrance front has 3
projecting gables with some tile-hanging. Central gable has plate-traceried sandstone window to first
floor and triple stone lancets to ground floor. Dormer between central and left hand gable also has
triple sandstone lancet. Other windows are mainly cambered casements with shouldered architraves.
Projecting 3/8 porch to right hand side and ground floor projection with gableted roof to left side
gable. Plinth of half-round bricks with a moulded drip course above the canted brick plinth. Rear
elevation has large gable to right with some tile-hanging, triple casements to first floor and triple
lancets to ground floor, central bay with triple window to dormer and 6-light bay under brick
penticed hood on brackets to ground floor. Conical projection to left in header bond with lancet
windows to floor. Right side elevation has one gable, one semi-dormer, 3 casement windows and
door with penticed hood. Left side has pattern of polychrome brickwork below eaves, cambered
casements, plain doorcase under penticed hood and weatherboarded outbuilding attached by a brick
wall. Interior has geometric pattern tiled entrance hall, staircase with carved and chamfered splat
balusters, chamfered newel posts and pendants, original fireplaces with wooden surrounds to drawing
room and first floor bedrooms and shutters and ingenious folding shutters and windowseats to
principal rooms. Conical roof to the rear elevation covered an apsidal-ended chapel on the first floor
for the Rev. Cleaver's Italian wife who was a Roman Catholic.

Listing NGR: TQ6746186285

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26536946

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