The Old Vicarage

Braughing village TL 3925 BRAUGHING THE STREET (west side)

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22.2.67

GV II

Vicarage, now a house. Early C18 incorporating external chimney and part of adjoining W gable of late C17 brick house, NW wing probably 1795 for Rev F E Say (Smith (1971) 19). Red brick with black headers. 2 upper floors of NW wing timber framed and plastered. Old red tile roofs with gable parapets. Hipped roof to NW wing. Double-pile main block of two and a half storeys and cellar. Upper floor of 3-storeys NW wing built over older brick service wing. Unusual plan possibly due to incorporating earlier structure. Facing S with main rooms in W part, small study in E part, on right of entrance and in front of an axial stair lit by round headed window central on the E end wall. Formerly 4 windows wide W front has had upper right hand two replaced by a single window in late C18. Projecting brick floor band and dentilled eaves cornice. Segmental arches to slightly recessed boxed sash windows with moulded architrave and 6/6 panes. 2 windows to left of door and one to right. Late C18 half-glazed panelled door set back with deep panelled reveals, and doorcase with fluted pilasters and corner blocks. Early C18 sash windows with heavy ovolo-moulded glazing bars surviving in kitchen on W side. Early C18 interior features with 2-panel doors, H-hinges, and closed string stair with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: TL3976425488