The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a former vicarage house, now integrated into a school, built between 1851 and 1852 by Edward Micklethwaite of Grimsby. A tower was added to the rear in 1869 by David Thompson, surveyor of Grimsby. The building is constructed of red-brown brick in English bond, with painted ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof.

The house is approximately square in plan, comprising a main L-shaped range that forms a two-room, central entrance-hall facing south and a west garden front, with wings to the rear and a later square-section tower addition in the north-west corner. The south front is asymmetrical, with three bays: a projecting gabled entrance bay, a slightly recessed full-height gabled bay to the right, and a projecting gabled wing to the left. A chambered plinth and a brick first-floor band run throughout. The entrance features a round-arched design of two orders, with painted ashlar impost blocks, an ashlar outer arch, and a brick inner arch, leading to a recessed 20th-century door and a plain fanlight within an original wooden architrave. Tall, slightly recessed tripartite sash windows with glazing bars are positioned to the left and right, with painted ashlar lintels and sills. The first floor has a three-course brick band at sill level, with a 12-pane sash in the central bay and single tripartite sashes on the sides. Stepped eaves are present, as are exposed rafter ends. Gables on each bay have small, segmental-headed boarded ventilator openings and deep, bracketed eaves. There are two stacks, each with corniced brick bases and triple octagonal corniced shafts.

The left return has two advanced bays with tripartite sashes to both ground and first floors. A three-storey addition to the left features a four-pane ground-floor sash beneath a timber lintel, a four-pane first-floor sash beneath a segmental arch, and a similar second-floor sash beneath a lintel. The addition has a pyramidal roof and a pair of side-wall stacks with triple and double shafts, similar to those on the main range. The right return features a tripartite first-floor sash with gables similar to the south front, and a set-back two-bay range with a 20th-century door, plain overlight, and 12-pane sashes to both floors, topped by a twin-shafted stack.

The rear elevation, facing Albert Road, has a round-headed entrance with a fanlight and an ashlar arch. Sashes with 12 panes and unequal 9 panes are also present. All original windows retain glazing bars and pointed ashlar lintels and sills.

Inside, a good cantilevered open-well staircase with drop-on-drop balusters, a heavy corniced handrail, chamfered newel-posts with finials and pendant drops, moulded plaster cornices, and panelled doors in architraves are notable features of the main rooms. The adjoining 20th-century school buildings are not considered to be of special interest.