The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a house dating from the 14th to 15th centuries, with alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of three bays aligned northeast to southwest, facing northeast, and features a central stack added in the 19th century. There is a single-storey extension to the left, built around 1974. The house is two storeys high, with the northeast elevation displaying one 20th-century casement window on each floor, and an original two-light window with wooden tracery in the attic gable. Each light of this window is cinquefoiled with two trefoils above and was originally unglazed, but is now glazed on the outside. The building has a jetty with exposed joists of horizontal section, two plain brackets, and a mortice for a third bracket. The left extension has a 20th-century door. The rear bay of the roof features a hipped gablet.

Inside, the walls are mainly plastered, but all visible posts are deeply chamfered. On the southeast side, there is a roll-moulded arch that is only partly visible, which appears to be part of an original window. Behind this arch, there are signs of a former cross-entry. The 19th-century inserted stack has 20th-century grates at the front and back. On the upper floor, chamfered arched braces rise to the front internal tiebeam. A re-located bracket supports an early 17th-century framed ceiling, which has plain joists of horizontal section. The roof is constructed with crownposts and is nearly complete. The front crownpost has a cross-quadrate section with wide four-way arched braces, one of which has been cut for the inserted stack. The rear crownpost is plain and features wide axial arched braces and down-braces to the tiebeam, which are trenched into the studs of an original partition. The original hip remains intact. The front crown stud serves as the central mullion of the gable window, which is rebated with step stops, and the wooden tracery is attached to it. This is a small house of high quality, likely built for a priest. Historical records from 1475 mention tenements where the parish clerk and John Brian the chaplain lived, indicating its significance in the community.