The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a vicarage house, now a private residence, built in 1805 by Robert E Johnson of Barton. It features an early to mid-19th century drawing room and underwent alterations in 1857 by D W Aston of Hull, with further changes around 1950 and in 1984. The building is constructed from red brick and has a slate roof. It is L-shaped in plan, with a central entrance hall flanked by two rooms, a staircase to the rear left, and a drawing room in the rear right wing. The house is two storeys high and has three symmetrical bays. There are steps leading to a six-beaded-panel door with a fanlight set in a 20th-century panelled reveal and wooden doorcase. The ground floor features 12-pane flush sash windows with channelled and keyed stucco cambered arches and projecting sills, while the first floor has similar sash windows with sills. The eaves cornice is stepped and cogged, and the gables are brick coped and tumbled, with the roof hipped to the rear wing. There are end stacks. Inside, the entrance hall and main rooms have moulded cornices, and the rear drawing room includes a screen with two fluted Ionic columns and flanking pilasters supporting a plain entablature, along with traces of original trompe d'oeil painted panelling. Beaded-panel window shutters and doors in architraves are present throughout. The 20th-century alterations have removed Aston's extensive additions, returning the house to its mid-19th century form.