The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a vicarage that has been converted into a house, built around 1850 by architect William White. The building is constructed from ironstone ashlar and features steeply pitched red tile roofs adorned with ornamental ridge tiles. It has brick ridge and end stacks, as well as stone lateral stacks with brick shafts. The structure is L-shaped, with the main elevation facing Main Street and a rear double-range that has an M-shaped roof.

The road-facing elevation includes a canted bay window topped with a hipped tiled roof and a three-light stone mullioned window. In the attic, there is a gabled full dormer featuring a four-light stone mullioned window and remnants of a finial. The left end of the building has a tile-hung gable, a two-storey bay window with tile-hanging on a stone lateral stack, and two buttresses. The right end features a single-storey stone and timber porch with a red-tile roof and ornamental ridge tiles, leading to a plank door with wrought-iron fittings and arch bracing. The early English style windows are located in the right gable.

The rear range has a two-window arrangement, is tile-hung, jettied, and includes two entrances along with two gabled half-dormers. The left elevation, or garden front, is irregular with red tile pent roofs and a stone lateral stack.

Inside, the vicarage features pointed arched doorways, plank doors with strap hinges and wrought-iron latches, an open wall staircase with pendants, bay windows with shutters that have wrought-iron hinges and fasteners, and an original stone fireplace. William White was part of a group of architects linked to the Ecclesiological movement, which developed a Gothic style for small houses and parsonages during the Mid Victorian Period.