The Vicarage And Attached Garden Walls

The Vicarage is a house dating from 1696, with further work in 1781 and remodelling and extensions around 1830, likely by Thomas Fulljames. It is constructed of marlstone ashlar and squared rubble, with limestone dressings, and has Welsh-slate roofs with limestone-ashlar stacks. The building is arranged in a “T” shape.

The front facade is ashlar with four windows on each floor. A six-panel door is set within a panelled ashlar porch dating from circa 1800. The windows are 12-pane sashes with flat arches, projecting marlstone keyblocks, applied limestone architraves with angle rolls, and limestone architraves to the overlights. A decorative band below the eaves is also applied, likely dating from circa 1830. A gable wall on the left side has two blind windows at first floor and a datestone inscribed “GS/1781” within an oakleaf cartouche. The gables have parapets and stacks.

The rear wing, a three-storey rubble structure returning to the right, includes a central stair projection with a two-light casement to the left and three-light transomed casements to the right, all with flat arches, projecting keyblocks, and leaded glazing. A datestone on this wing is inscribed “F/W.A/1696”. The wing has a central ridge stack and is extended by a single-storey gabled service range. A further ashlar range, dating from circa 1830, returns to the left, featuring stone architraves, keyblocks, a first-floor storey band, and full-height sashes at ground floor.

Inside, the rear range has stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and an open fireplace. The interior of the former stair projection is curved. The front range has butt purlin roofs.

A garden wall, approximately 3 metres high, runs to the right from the end of the rear wing and returns along the right side of the garden for around 30 metres. The inner face is of coursed squared marlstone ashlar, and the outer face is of limestone rubble, with a 2-course coping weathered outwards. The wall may be contemporary with the 1696 building. Thomas Fulljames was consulted about the vicarage in 1828.