The Old Vicarage

TL 5249 LITTLE ABINGTON CHURCH LANE (South Side)

9/30 No. 33 (The Old Vicarage)

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House formerly the vicarage. Early C18 with late C18 remodelling and extension of an original timber-framed building with cross wing to west; additional north range and extension to east c.1810 and late C19 extensions to west. Brick, stuccoed with imitation masonry lines. Slate roofs; (roof to cross wing formerly plain tiled). Two storeys with cellar and half cellar to dairy. North facing elevation: Three unequal 'bays' with four-flush- panelled door and rectangular fanlight in doorcase with panelled reveals; two first floor and one ground floor twelve-paned recessed hung sash windows and one similar but wider hung sash window to right hand. One early C18 hung sash window in east elevation; in south elevation late C18 windows with glazing bars forming pointed arches; good early C19 cast iron open verandah with pierced cornice and slender posts. Interior: Details early C19, an elliptical fanlight to inner door of staircase hall, C19 chimney pieces and doors. Some C18 two-panelled doors. The vicarage was reconstructed c.1810 by the vicar and c.1830 Queen Anne's Bounty lent ?327 for similar rebuilding. The vicarage was sold in 1961.

V.C.H., Vol. VI, pl5

Listing NGR: TL5306849135