The Old Vicarage

TL 5646 LINTON CHURCH LANE (South Side)

16/88 No. 3 (The Old 22.11.67 Vicarage)

GV II

House, formerly the vicarage. Late C17 with C18 and early and late C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed and plastered, painted late C17 red brick and C19 red brick. Plain tiled half hipped roofs. Side stacks to left and right hand wings, rectangular planned ridge stack to left of centre. Two storeys with attics and cellar. Half H-plan with later south-east rear wing including the original staircase hall. Late C19 service wing and attached outbuildings enclosing a small yard to left hand. North elevation: symmetrical facade with openings altered c,1800, four-panelled door with round headed fanlight in double recessed round headed brick arch. Four ground floor recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows and four similar first floor windows. Carved and moulded wooden eaves cornice, painted brick plinth. Interior: details of late C17, deep cornice, two bolection moulded chimney pieces at first floor; two-panelled doors some with additional C19 panels, fine closed string staircase rising in four straight flights to attic with twisted balusters. Two plaster panels in west cross wing. Resited early C17 panelling in study. C18 raised and fielded panelling with some C19 restoration. Wine vault and ice closet with original drainage channels in cellar. The house was a school in the late C18; in 1873 it was known as 'Winchester Lodge' a boarding school for girls. In 1896 alterations to a vicarage cost £1,266.

V.C.H. Vol. VI, p100 R.C.H.M. Report. 1951 Stevens, R.L. (unpublished records) Millicent and Paris Maps 1600. Pembroke College Plans for 1896 alterations C.R.0.

Listing NGR: TL5623246770