The Old Vicarage

THORPE-LE-SOKEN COLCHESTER ROAD TM 1622-1722 (north side) 8/78 The Old Vicarage 11.6.81

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Wrongly shown on OS map as The Vicarage. House. 1823. Gault and red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with slate. Double-pile plan facing SW, with 2 internal stacks symmetrically arranged. Late C19 service range to rear right with hipped roof of shallow pitch. C20 flat-roofed single-storey extension to rear left. 2 storeys and cellars. 3-window range of original sashes of 12 lights with flat brick arches, the lower windows recessed in segmental arches. Central double half-glazed doors in Greek Doric portico with fluted columns, triglyphs, and 3 stone steps. Chamfered plinth and corner pilaster strips. Hipped roof of shallow pitch. Gault brick at front and sides, bonding with red brick at rear. The building accounts are quoted in E.A. Wood, A History of Thorpe-le-Soken to the year 1890, 1975, 156-8.

Listing NGR: TM1750522761