Old Vicarage Farmhouse

Old Vicarage Farmhouse is a pair of houses that were originally a farmhouse, dating from the mid 16th century and early 17th century. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with clay plain tile roofs. It consists of both two-storey and one-storey sections with attics, and features a single-storey brick extension with a low-pitched roof on the southwest end, which was being rebuilt at the time of the survey. A rectangular stack is located on the ridgeline between the two main blocks, and there is a large 19th-century gabled dormer on the southeast roof slope of the lower part.

The exterior includes a large 19th-century red brick enclosed porch with a gabled roof. Most window frames had been removed by the time of the survey. The northeast part, which has a lower eaves line, is the former small open hall house from the mid 16th century.

Inside, this section features a single-bay hall, a cross-passage, and a floored chamber at the northeast end, separated by a single-storey partition with a central door opening. There is a mix of jowled and unjowled posts, along with remnants of diamond mullioned windows and external wall bracing. In the late 16th century, the hall was floored over with a squarish section, stop-chamfered floor joists, and large inserted bridging joists and a spine beam. The roof has side purlins and steep wind braces, suggesting a further short bay, possibly for a chimney stack, at the northeast end. A large mantel beam at the southwest end may have been relocated from this earlier position.

To the southwest, there is a two-storey, two-bay timber frame that is slightly narrower than the previous section, with external wall bracing that rises from the posts to the studs in a decorative manner. The central bridging joists support stop-chamfered joists similar to those inserted into the earlier building. The tie-beam is unbraced, and this structure provides one large room on each floor. Traces of original window openings can be seen, including one wide frieze window on the ground floor and a window between the two phases. The roof features coupled rafters and collars made from much reused material. The building was undergoing renovation at the time of the survey.