Former Vicarage With Terrace Retaining Wall And Steps

The former vicarage, now a house, was built around 1863 by S.S. Teulon for Rev. Daniel Capper. It features coursed, squared sandstone of irregular sizes with ashlar dressings, and a roof made of dark blue slates with a slate-hung gable. The building is designed in an L-shape and has varied levels and heights. The south elevation includes a basement and one or two storeys with four bays. The main block on the right has a projecting entrance bay with a two-centred open arch on the right and a flatter two-centred window on the left, which is situated under a hipped corbelled oriel. The right corner has buttresses, and there is a Gothic-style door in the porch behind the arch, topped by a crow-stepped gable. The left bay is set back and consists of a basement and two storeys, featuring a two-centred-arched ground-floor window and square-headed windows above. The left bay is gabled, and most windows are sashes of late 19th-century style. The roof has crow-steps on the left return gable of the main block and a slate-hung gable on the left return of the service wing, which has a diagonally-set tall stone chimney on the left and a tall ridge chimney on the service wing.

An open arch contains low patterned wood gates. The rear elevation features a decorative wooden canopy over a partly-glazed door. The rear of the service wing includes a pig-sty with a stone feeding-trough in the wall and an owl-hole with a stone shelf in the shelter part. The area wall has stone flags set at the left end as steps to the basement, with flat coping. The retaining wall curves around the right corner of the house and has rounded coping, with upward-tilting steps curving down from the right end.