The Old Vicarage

BOURTON SCHOOL LANE SP4545 (North side) Great Bourton 17/14 The Old Vicarage

GV II

Vicarage, now house. c,1850 by William White. Ironstone ashlar. Steeply pitched red tile roofs with ornamental ridge tiles. Brick ridge and end stacks. Stone lateral stacks with brick shafts, L-plan with elevation facing Main Street and rear double-range with M-shaped roof. Elevation facing road hasa canted bay window with hipped tiled roof and a 3-light stone mullioned window. Attic has a gabled full dormer with a 4-light stone mullioned window and remains of finial, Left end has a tile-hung gable, a 2-storey bay window with tile-hanging on stone lateral stack and 2 buttresses. Right end. Single-storey stone and timber porch with red-tile roof and ornamental ridge tiles. Plank door with wrought-iron fittings, Arch bracing. Early English style windows in right gable. Rear range has 2-window range, tile-hung, jettied and with 2 entrances. 2 gabled half-dormers. Left elevation or garden front. Irregular with red tile pent roofs, and stone lateral stack. Interior: Pointed arched doorways, plank doors with strap hinges and wrought-iron latches. Open wall staircase with pendants. Bay windows with shutters with wrought-iron hinges and fasteners. 0riqinal stone fireplace. William White was one of a group of architects associated with the Ecclesiological movement which developed a style of Gothic for small houses and parsonages in the Mid Victorian Period. ( R. and Muthesius, S. Victorian Architecture, 1985, p49)

Listing NGR: SP4573345519