The Vicarage

ARDLEIGH OFF THE STREET TM 02 NE (east side)

6/59 The Vicarage 21.2.50 GV II

House. C18 and later features, of C17 or earlier. Timber framed, rough rendered brick facing. Red plain tiled roofs, hipped to right, gabled to left crosswings. 2 left range and off centre main range chimney stacks. 2 storeys and attics. Flat headed dormer, small paned vertically sliding sash window to main range. Parapet. Central band. First floor 2:2:1, ground floor 1:0:1 small paned vertically sliding sashes, those to ground floor crosswings and first floor right crosswing Venetian windows. Long central hipped grey slate trellised porch, 4 panelled door with side lights. Various rear wings with 3 uniform hipped gables. Rev. John Kelly MA lived here 1796. Born 1750 at Bradden, I.O.M. he started to translate the Bible into the Manx language at the age of 16, 1776 he wrote a dictionary of the Manx language. After becoming tutor to Lord Huntley and accompanying him as fellow commoner to Cambridge and on the Grand Tour of the Continent he married and later, 1795, became Vicar of Ardleigh. Fearing his village might be caught up in fighting during the Napoleonic Wars he decided to make a list of all his parishioners. He called at every house and cottage and transcribed the information on to 12 pages of the parish register. This information forms the basis of the book by F.H. Erith Ardleigh in 1796", 1978.

Listing NGR: TM0539629589