The Old Vicarage

SP15NE 8/28 11/12/69

ASTON CANTLOW CHURCH ROAD (West side) Wilmcote The Old Vicarage (Formerly listed as The Vicarage)

GV II

Vicarage, now house. 1846-7, designed by William Butterfield for Edward Knottesford Fortescue. Squared lias rubble; projecting wing of regular coursed lias with roughcast front wall; lias quoins; limestone dressings. Main range has old tile roof, wing has late C20 tiles; coped gables; lias stacks, and brick external stack to wing. T-plan, with gabled projecting wing and cross wing. Gothic Revival style, 2 storeys; 5-window range. Entrance in corner has arched plank door with moulded stone arch and lias voussoirs. Irregular fenestration. Ground floor has 2- and 3-light stone chamfered mullioned and transomed windows with shaped upper lights, and 2-light square headed window with trefoiled ogee lights. Wing has French window with block surround in right return side; left return side has external stack, Left section, formerly single storey, has door and iron segmental headed window. First floor has lancet lights and half-dormers. Late C20 half-dormer above door. Left end upper storey, added later, of colourwashed brick. To rear: Staircase projection with hipped roof. Arched door. 2-light window with trefoiled ogee lights. Staircase has 2-light Decorated style window with ogee lights and transom, and quatrefoil. Half dormer with single small lancets. Interior: Stone closed well staircase. Forms part of an interesting group with Church of St. Andrew (q.v.) and Wilmcote Church of England junior and infants school (q.v.). (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.474, Paul Thompson: William Butterfield, pp.100-1, 277, 4i15, 458).

Listing NGR: SP1637857866