The Old Vicarage

TM 07 SW 3/57

WALSHAM LE WILLOWS PALMER STREET The Old Vicarage

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House, used at one time as the Vicarage, but not purpose-built. Early to mid C16. Timber-framed and rendered, red brick gable ends, old plaintiled roof. 2 storeys; 2-cell end-chimney plan. The original stack on the right, set within the frame, has a plain rectangular shaft of old brick on a rendered base; the associated gable end is in Tudor brick with diaperwork in blue headers, a small original slit window to the upper floor, a circular window to the ground floor; later buttressing. A small single-storey extension with hipped roof attached to this gable end has 3 cross windows. A later external stack on the left, also with a plain shaft. Modillion cornice, plain bargeboards. 3 windows to upper floor: one 2-light, 2 3-light, all old casements with a horizontal bar to lights. On the ground floor, a 4-light casement window with transome to the right of the door, and to the left a half-glazed French door with 2 leaves; a small-paned single-light window beside the plank entrance door. Open C20 rustic porch. Interior with good framing exposed: close studding, main ceiling-beams with very large chamfer; cambered tie-beams with long arched braces to the upper floor. Reconstructed fireplaces. Remains of 2 doorways in the internal partition wall, but no evidence for a typical service division into 2 on the left. Roof, which may originally have been hipped on the left, with plain queen-posts, arched braced to the collars and arcade plates; intermediate collars between trusses.

Listing NGR: TM0038270661