Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a house dating to approximately 1684, with restorations undertaken in the mid-18th century. It is constructed with a brick ground floor, a timber-framed first floor (partially replaced with brick), and original brick end walls. The building is painted, with tiled roofs and original red brick end stacks, each featuring rebuilt upper courses and a moulded brick cornice. The central stack is flanked by two diagonally set shafts. Originally, the house comprised two principal rooms alongside a single-storey kitchen to the south. The kitchen wing was altered in the 20th century to create a crosswing. The house is two storeys with an attic, marked by a brick band between the storeys. The front elevation originally had timber framing at first floor, which was replaced by brick in the 19th century, while the ground floor retains its original late 17th-century brickwork. Two dormers are present. The first floor has two recessed twelve-pane hung sashes. The original doorway, likely positioned in the centre room, is now blocked; another window has a canted bay with a twelve-pane hung sash. The current entrance is a lobby entry, leading to an early 19th-century flush panel door. The rear elevation displays timber framing, with the first floor roughcast-rendered. It contains three casements, some of which retain original fastenings and ironwork. The brick band extends over an original window opening, now housing a 19th-century canted bay. The kitchen wing was originally one storey but had its roof raised and a first floor added in the 20th century. In the garden stands a sundial constructed from carved medieval ecclesiastical limestone, probably Barnack, likely originally part of a pinnacle. The upper section of the sundial is shaped like an open book and composed of Ketton stone. Internally, there are two original clunch fireplace surrounds on the first floor, and a brick fireplace in the attic. Abutting hearths are found in one ground floor room and the kitchen. The upper flights of both the principal and service staircases are original. The building is known as the Old Vicarage referenced in the poetry of Rupert Brooke, who lived there in 1910.