The Vicarage

HOXNE GREEN STREET TM 17 NE 7/81 29.7.55 The Vicarage II Vicarage. A very complex house with work of late C15, early-mid C16, C17, early C18 and 1870. Substantially reduced in size c.1960 by demolition of some rear additions. The main elements are a hall range to the front, a rear range parallel to it, a cross-wing to the left and a small wing to the right, behind and at right angles to the front range. Timber framed: most of the front has C16-style imitation studwork with herringbone brick nogging, added in 1870; a small section plastered with coved eaves cornice. Remains of old panelled plasterwork at rear. Plaintiled roofs. 2 storeys; attic only in cross-wing. Casement windows. 2 ground floor bay windows with plaintiled roofs and to the left a projecting first floor window on brackets, all of 1870. Central gabled porch, the upper floor overhanging at the front; open entrance has carved spandrels; partly-glazed studded door. The porch is dated 1870 together with the initials of Edward Paget, the vicar at that time. Front gable end of cross-wing preserves some late C15 work, although much restored in 1870 to match the remainder of the front. Jettied first floor carried on original fleuron-enriched brackets supported by carved buttress- shafts. Overhanging gable on plain brackets. Original close studding. Some applied moulded joists added during restoration. Heavy ridge stack at junction of cross-wing and hall range. Another stack, perhaps early C17, against right gable end of hall range. Internally, nearly all the timber- framed structure is concealed. A little studding in one first floor room in hall range. Ground floor room in cross-wing has good complete early C18 raised and fielded panelling with a matching 6-panel door of the same period. Several early C18 2-panel doors. To rear an early C19 well stair with stick balusters and carved tread-ends. Much simple detail of early-mid C19. Roof over hall range has queen posts and king posts, the latter rising mainly from the tie beams and supporting a ridge piece, with 2-way bracing to it. No smoke blackening. The end towards the cross-wing has an open truss over a first floor chamber. Here the king post is chamfered and carried on the collar, which has shallow-curved solid braces meeting at the centre (a raised- aisle form). There are 2 intermediate trusses with shorter arched braces to the collars and no king post. This work is early-mid C16 in date and probably replaced an earlier hall range which may have been contemporary with the existing cross-wing. Original side-purlin roof over cross-wing, with ashlar pieces to principal trusses. The rear range, later than the front, has been re-roofed at a shallower pitch: some sooted rafters and others formed from halved moulded joists from a jettied range. Substantial remains of surrounding medieval moat.

Listing NGR: TM1807077541