The Old Vicarage And Attached Walls, Gates And Gatepiers

The Old Vicarage is an early 18th-century vicarage, later adapted as a house, incorporating earlier fabric and altered and extended in the late 19th century. It is constructed of marlstone ashlar and squared coursed rubble, with a Stonesfield-slate roof and ashlar stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan with an attached service range. Two storeys and an attic are present. The left part of the front elevation is of ashlar and displays a symmetrical arrangement of five tall 12-pane sash windows. A central arched doorway is set within a stone Baroque surround, featuring large imposts and a heavy double-stepped keyblock. The steep-pitched roof has three hipped roof dormers, hipped to the left and extending to the right over a wide blank section, which has only one blind window on each floor. A lower 19th-century service range extends to the left of the main range. The right gable wall, with a parapet, and the principal windows to the rear are 19th-century and are dressed in limestone. A rear wing, returning from a hipped end, has also been extended in the 19th century. An unusually tall, hipped-roofed stair tower, situated at the angle of the ranges, has early 18th-century window openings that match those on the front elevation, although the lowest window has a stone mullion. A cellar window in the rear wing also features a mullion.

Inside, intersecting moulded beams in the hall and a stop-chamfered door frame in the attic may date back to the 17th century. A chamfered Tudor-arched stone doorway in the cellars is likely from the 16th or 17th century. Early 18th-century details include a fine oak dogleg staircase rising to the attics, with a moulded closed string, turned balusters, and a newel with four clustered balusters. One first-floor room is lined with re-used 17th-century oak panelling, and there is a complete 18th-century panelled room on the ground floor with a moulded cornice above fielded panelling. A fine 18th-century panelled cupboard, with a dentil cornice and concave sections breaking back from an arched central section, has been re-set in a first-floor corridor. A heavy butt-purlin roof is also present. In the cellar, a re-set medieval stone corbel depicting a muzzled dog has been incorporated.

Marlstone garden walls, with flat stone copings, extend approximately 25 metres from the right end of the house along Mill Lane, ramping up twice and incorporating a Tudor-arched stone doorway. The forecourt includes square ashlar gatepiers with stone vase finials and wrought-iron gates, extending approximately 20 metres to the east of the gates.