The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a rectory, now a house, built in 1859 by William Burges. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof. The building features a central direct entry plan, with an additional single-storey lean-to bay and a stair tower that rises through the full height of the house on the left side. It has two storeys and attics, with six windows on the ground floor and five on the upper floor, creating a symmetrical elevation.

The entrance includes a lean-to porch with an open timber frame, leading to a pointed double-chamfered doorway under a hoodmould. There is a double-leaf boarded door flanked by three cross-mullion windows on each side, all with sills and shouldered lintels beneath relieving arches. A chamfered sill band runs along the first floor, which has five similar windows without relieving arches and featuring horizontal glazing bars. The roof includes three raking dormers with casements that have glazing bars. The deep overhanging eaves are supported by giant curved and chamfered brackets that spring from corbels at the first-floor sill band level, and the bargeboards display a pierced quatrefoil motif, with end and axial stacks.

The stair tower on the left has windows similar to those on the main elevation, topped by a separate hipped roof. Inside, most original features remain, including a cut string stair with scrolled tread ends, turned balusters, and a moulded, wreathed handrail. The right front room contains a white marble fire surround with coloured tiles, while the left front room has a wooden fire surround with a pulvinated frieze and Dutch tiles depicting Biblical scenes. The right rear room features a grey marble fire surround with tiles illustrating scenes from the novels of Sir Walter Scott. Additionally, there are numerous six-panel doors and an unaltered set of servants' rooms, complete with cast-iron fireplaces and original paintwork.