The Old Vicarage Including Adjoining Carriage House And Stables

The Old Vicarage, together with its adjoining carriage house and stables, is a mid-19th century parsonage house, likely built in 1855 by J L Pearson. Constructed of light brown brick in Flemish bond, with rubbed red brick and sandstone ashlar dressings, it has a Welsh slate roof. The building is L-shaped and comprises a double-depth house with a three-room central entrance hall facing east, a drawing room and dining room to the rear, and a kitchen wing to the rear right, with a carriage house/stable and stores range extending beyond.

The east front is two storeys high, with three bays, and exhibits a symmetrical design, with the central bay projecting forward. It features a chamfered brick plinth and steps leading to a panelled front door, set beneath a moulded lintel and overlight with geometric glazing bars and coloured margin lights, within a panelled reveal under a flat brick arch and moulded ashlar cornice. The first-floor section is stepped in above. Ground-floor windows are 12-pane sashes in reveals with projecting stone sills beneath red brick cambered arches. Similar, slightly shorter, first-floor sashes are above. Deep eaves and a hipped roof are present, along with a ridge stack with a brick band, ashlar cornice, and octagonal pots. Similar stacks are located at the rear and on the right return.

The left return, forming a garden front, has two bays, with a recessed left bay. The right bay features a centrally projecting section with a 12-pane sash beneath a brick cambered arch and ashlar cornice, and a narrower raised section above with a 12-pane first-floor sash under a similar arch. A wooden canted bay window with French windows and overlight with glazing bars, set in a Doric surround with tapered pilasters carrying an entablature with triglyphs, guttae, a moulded cornice, a blocking course, and a flat hood, is present on the ground floor of the left bay. A central first-floor section breaks forward with a 12-pane sash and a narrower 8-pane sash in the angle to the right, both below cambered brick arches. The right return has irregular fenestration with hung and sliding sashes with glazing bars beneath brick cambered arches. A coped wall with a round-headed opening connects the rear wing to the carriage house/stable and stores range. A two-storey section to the left has two first-floor openings. The carriage entrance to the right has a two-fold board door, a pair of board doors, and a 12-pane sliding sash beneath segmental arches; a first-floor hatch with a board door is set beneath a segmental arch, with a blocked similar opening to the left. Stepped eaves and a ridge stack are present. A single-storey section to the right has a sliding sash and a pair of board doors beneath segmental arches, and a coped gable.

The interior of the house retains original features, including an open-well staircase with a ramped grip handrail, turned newel posts, plain balusters, inserted 20th-century wrought-iron balusters, and profiled cheek-pieces. Marble chimney-pieces are found in two ground-floor front rooms, one with carved consoles. Moulded plaster cornices, panelled window shutters, and six-pane doors in architraves beneath moulded cornices are also present. The building was likely constructed alongside the neighbouring church of St Bartholomew and school in 1855.