The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. Vicarage. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
scarred-rubble-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1984
Type
Vicarage
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a vicarage that has been converted into a private house. The south range dates back to the 15th century and is constructed with timber framing and wattle and daub infill, covered with a 19th-century brick skin. An extension was added to the north in 1872, with further additions made to the northeast in 1894. The building is two storeys high, featuring a central door flanked by one casement window and one sash window, all set under segmental arches. The first floor has three sash windows. The roof is gabled and was tiled in 1949 after the thatch was removed.

The west wall has a 16th-century external stack, which is now enclosed by an early 17th-century stepped gable with moulded brick kneelers, all made of brick. There are four square 17th-century window openings; the lower left has a casement window from the early 1980s, while the others date to the 18th century. A 20th-century sash window is located on the ground floor to the left.

Inside the south range, the exposed close studding timbers are of heavy scantling. There is a heavy bridging beam with chamfer and tongue stops, likely relocated, along with 19th-century joists. The staircase was added in the 1980s. This area retains the remains of an open hall. The west room features a 17th-century fireplace and bressummer, with a middle rail to the stud work and a renewed bridging beam. The original north wall has a blocked 6-light timber mullioned window with hollow chamfer mouldings, with the eastern half now glazed in the 20th century. This window is located below the eaves line within large framing panels, and there are remains of a similar window three metres to the west.

The first floor framing is otherwise intact, with two pairs of tie beams on large hollow chamfered arched braces, though one brace has been removed from each tie. The eastern half of the roof is mostly from the 19th and 20th centuries, while the west half features a renewed plain crown post, queen struts, collars, clasped upper purlins, and butt lower purlins, indicating it was probably originally a crown post roof.

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