The Vicarage

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TQ 2494 31-/13/10006

TOTTERIDGE VILLAGE No 44, The Vicarage

(Formerly listed under TOTTERIDGE LANE)

II

Vicarage. 1892 by Charles Nicholson. Red brick in English bond, roughcast bay windows and dormer cheeks. Plain tile hipped roof sprocketed out over moulded wooden eaves cornice. Brick Axial stacks with tall shafts with brick cornices.

PLAN: Rectangular plan with entrance hall to right of centre, service rooms and single storey outhouses at left end and principal rooms overlooking garden at rear SE. Domestic Revival style.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 2:2:1:2 NW front. First floor has pairs of narrow 8-pane sashes in moulded flush boxes and small moulded cills. Ground floor narrow cross-mullion-transom window to right and 2 very small casements and sash on left, all with glazing bars, flush moulded cases, moulded cills and relieving arches; main doorway to right of centre with large segmental moulded canopy on squat Tuscan stone columns on brick piers, 8- panel door with side lights in moulded frame and small round stained glass window above; 8- panel service door to left. 3-window SE garden front with narrow roughcast full-height canted bay windows to left and centre, around which the main eaves cornices breaks forward, casement windows and narrow French casement onright bay; tripartite sash on right and narrow sash above. 2 hipped dormers with deep moulded eaves cornices and 2 very small flat roof dormers. Similar sashes and casements and bay on SW and NE ends, NE end with single storey hipped roof outhouses. Rainwater heads dated 1892.

INTERIOR: Good interior features and joinery intact including, panelled doors, cupboards, moulded cornices, staircase balustrade and a fine set of chimney pieces some with tiled surrounds to grate, one with Delft tiles; good free-style hall chimneypiece. Stained glass roundel over front door by Archibald Nicholson.

Listing NGR: TQ2472794171