The Old Vicarage Including Adjoining Carriage House And Stables

SE 81 NW EASTOFT HIGH STREET (west side)

4/6 The Old Vicarage including adjoining carriage house and stables

GV II

Parsonage house, now house, with adjoining carriage house and stables. Mid C19, probably 1855, by J L Pearson. Light brown brick in Flemish bond with rubbed red brick and sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. L- shaped on plan: double-depth house with 3-room, central entrance-hall east front, drawing room and dining room to rear, kitchen wing to rear right with carriage house/stable and stores range beyond. East front: 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical, with central bay breaking forward. Chamfered brick plinth. Steps to panelled door beneath moulded lintel and overlight with geometric glazing bars and coloured margin lights in panelled reveal beneath flat red brick arch and moulded ashlar cornice; first-floor section stepped- in above. 12-pane ground-floor sashes in reveals with projecting stone sills beneath red brick cambered arches. Similar but slightly shorter first-floor sashes. Deep eaves. Hipped roof. Ridge stack with brick band, ashlar cornice and octagonal pots. Similar stacks to rear and right return. Left return forms garden front: 2 bays, with recessed left bay. Right bay has central section breaking forward, with 12-pane sash beneath brick cambered arch and ashlar cornice, narrower raised section above with 12-pane first-floor sash below similar arch. Left bay has wooden ground-floor canted bay window with French windows and overlight with glazing bars to front, and unequal 10-pane sashes to sides, in Doric surround with tapered pilasters carrying entablature with triglyphs, guttae, moulded cornice, blocking course and flat hood. Central first-floor section above breaks forward with 12-pane sash, narrow 8-pane sash in angle to right, both below cambered brick arches. Right return has irregular fenestration with hung and sliding sashes with glazing bars beneath brick cambered arches. Coped wall with round-headed opening links rear wing to carriage house/stables and stores range. 2-storey section to left, with 2 first-floor openings, has basket-arched carriage entrance to right with 2-fold board doors, pair of board doors and 12-pane sliding sash to left beneath segmental arches; first-floor hatch to right with board door beneath segmental arch, blocked similar opening to left, stepped eaves, ridge stack. Single-storey section to right has sliding sash and pair of board doors beneath segmental arches, coped right gable. Interior of house: original features include open-well staircase with ramped grip handrail, turned newel posts, plain balusters and inserted C20 wrought-iron balusters, profiled cheek-pieces; marble chimney- pieces to 2 ground-floor front rooms, one with carved consoles; moulded plaster cornices, panelled window shutters, 6-pane doors in architraves beneath moulded cornices. Probably built together with the neighbouring church of St Bartholomew (qv) and school in 1855.

Listing NGR: SE8064816668