Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1987. A C19 Vicarage. 1 related planning application.
Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- gilded-pedestal-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1987
- Type
- Vicarage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage, dated 1855 on the upper arch moulding of the entrance porch, was designed by Benjamin Ferrey, the architect responsible for the restoration of the Abbey Church. It is built in a 13th-century Gothic Revival style. The construction utilizes squared rubble in courses, with ashlar quoins and details, slate roofs, and four stone stacks topped with red terracotta pots. It features an offset plinth with chamfered capping. The building comprises a rectangular main block with a short gabled cross wing on the left of an asymmetrical front.
The recessed front entrance porch is under a moulded pointed arch inscribed with "NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA." Above the arch, a horizontal drip mould with eaved side drops frames recessed panels carved with monograms within circular trefoil details. The inner doorway is similarly pointed, leading to a four-panel door with glazed upper panels. The walls of the porch are lined with white ceramic tiles. A tall two-light window serves the stairwell, incorporating a single transom and single quatrefoil plate tracery with diamond pane leadlight glazing. To the right of the porch is a triplet of lancets with trefoil heads. On the first floor, there's a pair of lancets above the porch and a similar pair to the right, both with Caernarvon arch heads. Between these pairs of lancets, a square-framed panel contains a shield of arms painted red and gold. A dormer gablet with a stepped triplet of lancets with trefoil heads sits above. The gable end wall of the wing on the left features a moulded first-floor string course and a central stack projecting on corbels above a pair of lancets to the ground floor and a single lancet on the first floor. The south front has a cross gable to the left, crowned by a stack projecting on corbels above a sash window to the attic, and a coped gabled dormer to the right with a pair of lancets. On the ground floor, there’s a triplet of lancets with trefoiled heads to the left and right. A similar triplet of lancets is on the first floor to the right, and a stepped triplet with a central mullion is under a pointed arch hood mould with eaved side drops. The garden front features a projecting bay, broken at the top to create a canted bay window on the first floor. A doorway with a pointed arch within the bay is accessed via a glazed four-panel door. There's a pair of lancets to the front of the bay window with single lancet side lights. To the left, an irregular pattern of lancets with trefoil or Caernarvon arched heads is present on both floors. A gable to the left features a circular-framed cinquefoil light in the attic. Single-storey gabled service extensions are located on the north side. The interior has not been inspected. The building is important for its group value with the Romsey Abbey Church and the Primary School.
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