The Old Vicarage And Attached Railings, Gate And Wall

The Old Vicarage, now a private residence, was built in 1861 by John Johnson. It is constructed of yellow stock brick with stone, red brick, and dark yellow brick banding and detailing, topped with a slate roof featuring red cresting. A tall brick chimney-stack is at the rear, and a pyramidal roof covers the stair tower. The building is in a Gothic Revival style.

The exterior is two storeys, with an attic and basement, and is asymmetrical in design. A deep band of zig-zag patterned brickwork, outlined with stone, runs around the building. The main entrance is within a lower, mono-pitched roof bay on the right side, featuring a round-arched panelled door with quatrefoil and trefoil-headed glazed panels, set beneath a gabled trefoil porch supported by Decorated columns; a carved Agnus Dei is in the apex. To the right of the entrance is a trefoil-headed lancet window and a two-pane sash window with a shaped stone lintel on the first floor. The left-hand gabled bay features canted bay windows rising from the basement to the second floor, topped with a penthouse roof beneath a two-light window with trefoil heads, colonettes, and quatrefoil under a pointed arch. The ground floor central window has colonnette and foil enrichment. The right-hand return side has similarly styled windows, and the stair tower has a deep diaper-patterned band with oculi below the eaves. Decorated cast-iron rainwater heads are present.

Inside, original features remain, including Gothic fireplaces, cornices, and a staircase with twisted balusters and quatrefoil fretwork.

Attached to the property are cast-iron railings with enriched cross finials, an entrance gate, a stone-capped wall constructed of Kentish ragstone random rubble. A historical note indicates that the now-demolished Church of St Matthew, also designed by Johnson, previously stood to the right. The architect was best known for his designs for Alexandra Palace.