Vicarage House is a Grade I listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. A C17 House. 4 related planning applications.
Vicarage House
- WRENN ID
- broken-facade-furze
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage House is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and follows a lobby-entry plan. The windows are mullioned, featuring a hollow chamfer, outer chamfer, and hoods. To the left of the entrance door are windows of 4 and 5 lights, while to the right are windows of 2 and 3 lights. The first-floor windows are arranged as 4, 2, 2, and 5 lights. A chamfered surround with a Tudor arch frames the entrance door. Chimneys are located to the left and right of the door, and on the left-hand gable, which projects from the ridge. The gables are coped, with kneelers and ball finials. A distinctive feature is a 10-light mullioned and transomed window on the first floor of the left-hand gable.
Inside, the entrance door opens into a lobby, leading to two large, back-to-back fireplaces, originally with firehoods. Each fireplace has a stone jamb and a chamfered bressumer with run-out stops. The right-hand inglenook contains a smaller, reset stone fireplace with a Tudor arch. The rooms served by these fireplaces display exposed chamfered and stopped main beams and common joists. The house includes extensive timber panelling, believed to be largely 17th century, but incorporating elements possibly from the early 16th century; some of this panelling appears to have been re-arranged or imported from elsewhere. A room to the right of the door is separated from the two adjacent rooms by a panelled wall composed of vertical planks and muntins, featuring two intermediate horizontal rails and two doorways with depressed arched heads, each with an incised cross. Some of the muntins bear the carpenter's marks. A similar panelled wall divides the room to the left of the door from the adjacent room, but here the rails and muntins are moulded, and the doorway has a Tudor-arched head with carved flower and tracery decoration in the spandrels. Set within an inglenook, surrounding a 19th or 20th-century fireplace, is a further section of panelling complete with two doorways sharing similar Tudor-arched heads, with tracery decoration on the upper parts of the doors. The staircase is now situated within the lobby and consists of a straight flight with turned balusters. Additional panelling is found on the first floor.
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