The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a house, built in 1790 for Amaziah Empson, who was the vicar at the time. Later additions and alterations were made in the 19th century and 20th centuries. A rear addition was completed in 1868 by Henry Goddard of Lincoln. Further bay windows and internal alterations occurred between 1917 and 1935, and later additions were made to the rear in the 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and red brick stacks, with yellow brick used for the 19th-century addition. It is L-shaped, with the original two-room, double-depth entrance-hall fronting east. The layout includes kitchens, a dairy in one wing, and a single-room addition to the rear left, incorporating a study that has been converted into a rear hall. A canted bay window was added to the left return, and the front dining room was opened into the rear hall in the early 20th century.

The house is three stories high and has a symmetrical three-bay facade. It features ashlar quoins and a plinth. The entrance has a Roman Doric doorcase with attached columns supporting an entablature with a fluted frieze, dentilled cornice, and an open pediment. The door is six-panelled, with four glazed panels above fielded panels, and it is situated beneath a cornice and fanlight within an arched, panelled reveal. Canted bays on the ground floor have twelve-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves, with sills and stucco flat arches. Similar windows are found on the first floor, and six-pane sashes are present on the second floor, all within matching surrounds. Parapets with coved ashlar cornices top the canted bays. The left return, which faces the south garden, features a 19th-century canted bay with a French window, flanked by full-length plate-glass sashes set within ashlar lintels. A stepped eaves cornice is present, along with a 20th-century canted bay with twelve-pane sashes and a coped parapet. The original chimney-pieces from the first-floor front rooms retain pilasters, dentilled cornices and decorative composition ornament. A coved plaster cornice adorns the stairhall. A 19th-century, open-well oak staircase features a pointed-arch balustrade. The main ground-floor rooms were remodelled in a Neo-Classical style in the early 20th century, likely around the 1920s, when the house ceased to be a vicarage.