The Old Vicarage And Coach House/Stable Adjoining To Right

SK 9699-9799 REDBOURNE VICARAGE LANE (east end) 22/72 The Old Vicarage and coach-house/stable adjoining to right GV II Vicarage, now house, and adjoining coach-house/stable. C17 origins to house, with mid C19 extension to rear; alterations and additions of 1861 by James Fowler of Louth included re-roofing, new porch, kitchen extension, coach-house and courtyard. Renovations of c1980. Coursed limestone rubble to main range of house, red brick to mid C19 extension; later additions in squared limestone. Welsh slate roofs. House L-shaped on plan: original 3- room south front with entrance hall and later porch to left, kitchen wing to rear right and mid C19 closet extension (now rear entrance porch) in angle; walled courtyard and coach-house/stable block to right. House: 2 storeys with attic, 3 first-floor windows. Projecting gabled porch to left of centre with deep chamfered plinth, recessed board door beneath ashlar lintel with shaped imposts, rubble relieving arch and ornate bargeboards; slit windows to returns. C20 16-pane sashes, C20 full-length first-floor window to right. C19 gabled dormer above entrance with 4-pane sliding sash, crested ridge tiles. Corniced end stack to left, axial stack to right. Coach-house/stables: rectangular on plan with central lobby and tackroom flanked by stable to right and carriage-house and stores to left. Single storey and attic central single-bay section flanked by single-storey 2-bay wing to left, single-bay wing to right; linked to house by courtyard walls to left and right. Central segmental-pointed arch to open lobby with board doors to rooms. 2-light casement to right beneath segmental-pointed arch. Pair of board doors to carriage house beneath timber lintel. Two doorways to left (one blocked) with segmental-pointed arches. Attic pitching hatch to centre beneath segmental-pointed arch. Gabled central section with corniced stack to left; hipped roofs to wings. Coped courtyard walls to each side, that to right with coped piers flanking entrance, that to left with segmental-pointed arch doorway. Interior of house contains beamed ceilings with exposed joists, massive axial stack. The original 3-bay "mansion house" is recorded in C17-C18 Glebe Terriers.

Listing NGR: SK9735799869