Knowsley Old Vicarage

The Knowsley Old Vicarage, now a retirement home, was likely built around 1885, as indicated by the date on the neighbouring Vicarage Lodge, and has been altered since. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, with scalloped tile hanging at first floor level, terracotta dressings matching the brick colour, sandstone surrounds to some openings, and a tiled roof featuring broad fishscale bands. The building follows an irregular double-pile plan and is designed in the Queen Anne style.

The building is two storeys high, with asymmetrical three-bay elevations to the south, west and north sides. It incorporates dentilled string courses and a frieze of foliated terracotta tiles between the ground and first floors, which runs around the building, alongside tall chimneys adorned with pilaster strips rising to corbelled cornices.

The main entrance front, facing south, features a broad, two-storey gabled porch offset to the left, with a stone plinth, a wide doorway and flanking cross-windows, all within a moulded stone surround. The first floor is jettied on either side, with a stone mullioned oriel window centrally positioned; the eaves sweep with tiled overhangs and an apex finial. To the left of the porch, a broad chimney stack protrudes, featuring a shouldered blank arch at ground floor and offsetting above. To the right of the porch, there are two segmental-headed windows on each floor, with the first floor windows set within a slightly jettied gable incorporating an extruded chimney rising through the apex.

The west and north fronts are similarly styled. The west front includes a projecting two-storey bay window to the right, canted at ground floor level but rectangular at the first floor, with mullioned windows on both levels, and a roof half-hipped to the left. The north front contains a projecting gabled bay offset to the right, featuring a canted two-storey bay window; a timber-framed and pargeted gabled oriel with two cross-windows to the left; and a narrow half-dormer breaking the eaves to the right. Three tall chimneys are also present.

The rear (east) elevation has a small courtyard with L-shaped, single-storey service ranges including a privy-midden, wash-house and vehicle shed. A screen wall encloses the third side of the courtyard.