The Vicarage

The Vicarage is a house built in 1727, likely for Dr. Bentley, a classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. There were minor additions made around 1840 at the rear. The building is constructed of yellow gault brick with red brick dressings and features a hipped tiled roof with a wood dentil eaves cornice and end stacks. It is a double pile structure with two storeys and an attic, including two dormers, each with a sixteen-pane hung sash window. The facade is framed by rusticated quoins made of red brick and divided by a red brick band with moulded upper and lower edges. The first floor has four window openings with gauged red brick segmental arches and rusticated surrounds, one of which is blocked from the mid-20th century. The ground floor has similar window arrangements on either side of the doorway, with the original red brick doorway surround partially visible, while the current doorcase is from the 19th century. At the rear, there is an early 19th-century addition made of grey gault brick.

Inside, the hall, one ground floor room, and rooms on the first floor are lined with plain sunk panelling featuring a moulded double cornice and bolection moulded dado. The original staircase has six flights and two landings, with similar panelling below the bolection moulded dado. It has an open string design with slender, vase-shaped balusters—three on each tread—and features curtail and scroll tread ends along with a swept, toads back rail. The main beams are boxed and panelled, and there is one abutting corner fireplace in each of the four ground floor rooms. In around 1840, the left-hand ground floor room was converted into a parish room, with access provided through a doorway in the addition. The house was intended to be suitable for the reception of a person of rank and quality, and it was specified that brick from "beyond London" should be used for its construction.