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Description: Former St. Martin's Vicarage

Address: Brook House 3 Parsonage Lane Brighouse West Yorkshire HD6 1AU

Grade: II

Group detail: Church Lane (off) Brighouse

Full description:
Large vicarage. 1840. Hammer-dressed stone, slate roof. 2 storeys. Vernacular Revival. South-east front has F'-plan of 4 bays. 2nd bay breaks forward in the form of 2-storey gable porch with depressed tudor arched doorway over which is tablet in form of open scroll inscribed: 'ADMDCCCXL'. Arched light over and gable with open work cusped barge boards and drop finials with finial to apex. 4th bay has similar gable. Windows are mostly tall with chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds. 1st and 3rd bays have shaped dormers. Left hand return wall of 2 bays. 1st bay has large 3-light mullioned window with cruciform glazing central light broken through to form doorway. Over is similar dormer. At 1st floor between the bays is projecting canted window. 2nd bay is under plain gable (having lost its decorative barge boards) and features stepped light to 1st floor with shield set in a square in the gable. Roofed with fishscale slates. 3 tall stacks with diagonally set windows. The vicarage forms a group with the church and school unchanged since 1840 as an engraving illustrates.