The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a large vicarage built between 1845 and 1846 by G.T. Andrews of York, with minor alterations in the 19th century. Service buildings at the rear were removed in the 20th century. The building is constructed of white brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with sandstone ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof. It is planned on a double-depth format, with a two-room central entrance hall on the east front (the right-hand room is now a garage), and a three-room garden front with a prominent central canted bay.

The east front has four bays, including a narrower bay to the right. It features an ashlar plinth and a tripartite entrance with a panelled door, three-pane overlight, Doric doorcase with pilasters, narrow round-headed sidelights, entablature with a moulded cornice, and a hood. There are single, slightly recessed, twelve-pane sashes to each side with ashlar sills and rubbed-brick flat arches; a later 19th-century four-pane sash has been inserted to the right in a matching surround. The first floor features an ashlar sill band and three twelve-pane sashes to the left, with an inserted four-pane sash to the right. Deep, overhanging eaves and a hipped roof complete the east front, with a corniced ridge stack on the right.

The south front is symmetrical, with three bays. The central bay projects forward with a ground-floor canted bay window featuring steps to full-length, twelve-pane sashes beneath brick flat arches, a coved eaves cornice, and a hipped roof. The side bays have steps to full-length tripartite sashes with glazing bars, also beneath brick flat arches. The first floor has an ashlar sill band and twelve-pane sashes similar to those on the east front: three to the central bay and one to each side bay. A hipped roof and a pair of corniced ridge stacks are present.

The interior includes an elliptical-arched opening into the stairhall. A cantilevered open-well staircase features a wreathed mahogany handrail, plain stick balusters, and profiled cheek-pieces. Coved ceiling cornices are found in the hall and main rooms. The southwest dining room has a pilastered marble chimney-piece with a modillioned cornice and a roundel ornament. The main rooms include panelled window shutters and window architraves with cornices, while four-panelled doors are set within architraves throughout the house. The design is reminiscent of Andrews’ vicarage at Winteringham. An architect’s drawing for the building is held in the Lincolnshire Archive Office.