The Vicarage

The Vicarage is a house dating from 1893, with minor alterations in the late 20th century, designed by the architect Ernest Newton. It is constructed of red brick with tile hanging and timber framing, featuring gable and ridge chimneys and a hipped roof covered in plain tiles. The design reflects a restrained Arts and Crafts style.

The building has an L-shaped plan, aligned north-south, with a lower service wing extending from the north gable. The west front, which is the main entrance front, is two storeys and attic in height, with three bays. A projecting timber-framed gable is centrally located, and in front of it sits a pitched roofed open porch, also timber-framed, with a wide, shallow arched opening and timber mullioned windows to the side walls. The porch shelters a half-glazed door with a single side light. Above the framed gable, multi-pane casement windows are set within the frame members, lighting the main stair. To the left of the porch is a blind bay. The garden (east) front features a half-hipped gable to the right with a canted ground floor bay window, a transomed four-light first floor window, and a three-light window to the gable apex. Further to the left are three- and four-light transomed windows. The centre bay contains a doorway integrated into the window opening, and to its left, a square window with a stone frame illuminates an inglenook fireplace. The right return, where it joins the set back service range, has a second square window, and a projecting chimney with diagonally-set linked stacks. The left return incorporates a canted bay window within a tile-hung end wall, a two-light first floor window, and a four-light attic window beneath the half-hip.

The interior front entrance opens into a spacious stair hall, featuring a closed string, turned baluster, dog-leg stair. This hall provides access to the service range, dining room, study, and main reception room, all accessed via two-panel doors and with original hearth surrounds. The dining room contains a chamfered spine beam, wainscot panelling, and a hearth with an overmantle shelf. The main reception room is characterised by full-height panelling with inlay work to the panel framing, and a moulded cornice. A wide inglenook fireplace is set behind a chamfered bressumer, surmounted by a panelled overmantle. A bay window incorporates fitted window seating. Upper floors retain original hearths and joinery, with a half-glazed screen to the landing vestibule.

The Vicarage is described as a carefully-detailed and little-altered Arts and Crafts house, designed by the notable architect Ernest Newton, who was a pupil of Norman Shaw.