The Vicarage

SU73-7450 & 73-7451 ODIHAM HIGH STREET (north side) 17/4 The Vicarage 8.7.52 II

Circa 1500, C18, C19. Former open medieval hall with cross wings: now a 2 storeyed timber framed house with later additions and extensions. Front (south) has a steep red tile roof with gables at each side, middle shafted stack towards west and massive (C17) chimney breast (tapering upwards) at the east end. The frame is exposed on the ground-floor of the east side, with heavy close studding bricknogged: the upper part of the east side gable and the middle section is tile-hung, the west side gable is a red brick wall in Flemish bond with cambered openings and plinth, the middle section has earlier brickwork in English bond with a high plinth: a rear gable has some tile-hanging, brick walling with bands and plinth at 2 levels. A variety of windows: half-dormers, an old mullioned and transomed light at the rear, mostly modern casements, 2 sashes in a ground- floor brick-walled bay at the west end. The rear has later 2-storeyed extensions (of c.1820) with slate roofing and rendered walls, ending in single- storeyed outshots with hipped tile roofs.

Listing NGR: SP7460559746