3, High Street

This is a mid-18th century vicarage, later used as a research establishment, and now a house. It was extended and raised to three storeys in the late 18th or early 19th century. The building is constructed of brown brick, the lower part in English bond, with a concrete tile roof. It has a double-depth plan, featuring a two-room central entrance hall with a through-passage to the left, and a single-room wing to the rear right.

The building is three storeys high and four bays wide. A painted plinth incorporates single, blocked cellar openings on either side of the front entrance. A 19th-century flight of three stone steps, with a cast-iron balustrade, leads to a six-fielded-panel door with an overlight and margin lights, set in a plain reveal and architrave beneath a painted, cambered brick arch. Matching 19th-century plate-glass sash windows are present on the ground floor, each set in a reveal with a sill and a cambered arch. There is a matching 20th-century window to the right, replacing a former opening. A board door, concealed behind a boarded panel and a similar arch, leads to the passage. The first floor has 12-pane sashes, while the outer bays of the second floor also have 12-pane sashes. The inner pair of second-floor windows have glazing bars to the upper sashes and plate glass to the lower sashes. All windows have sills and painted cambered arches. The building has corbelled brick eaves, a double-span roof, stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers, and end stacks, the left-hand stack featuring a dentilled cornice.

Interior features of the late 18th century include an open-well staircase with a ramped, corniced handrail, column-on-vase balusters with square knops, and a guilloche fret balustrade to the first-floor landing. The stairhall has a moulded cornice, and there are moulded cornices and central ceiling roundels in the main first-floor rooms. 19th-century marble chimney-pieces are found in the first-floor rooms to the left, while other rooms have simpler stone chimney-pieces. There are also panelled window reveals and architraves throughout.