The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a Victorian house dated 1864, designed by William White. It was originally built as a vicarage and is now a private residence. The construction combines snecked squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, alongside areas of tile hanging, and features plain tile roofs.

The building has an irregular plan and is designed in a Domestic Gothic Revival style. It presents as two distinct wings, one with two storeys and the other with two storeys and an attic. Integral brick stacks are prominent, including an end stack to the right, a ridge stack to the left-hand wing, and a lateral stack to the left of the right-hand wing, all adorned with double toothed-brick cornices. The windows are predominantly 2- and 3-light chamfered-mullioned stone windows with bar stops and wooden casements. The left wing features first-floor 3-light mullioned windows, while the right wing has 2-light mullioned windows. A tile-hung gabled dormer, set back between the wings, incorporates a 3-light wooden casement.

The main entrance has a half-glazed door with a 4-part overlight containing stained glass, sheltered by a timber-framed glazed porch with a high chamfered stone plinth and lean-to roof hipped to the left. The porch features curved braces, leaded lights, and an encaustic tiled floor. The front facade is asymmetrical with a main range set back to the right. This range includes a large tile-hung gabled dormer and a 2-storey lean-to with a catslide roof, featuring a 2-light mullioned window and a boarded door with decorative strap hinges; the eaves are extended to form a bracketed porch.

Other features include a 3-light wooden attic casement on the left-hand gable end, a 3-light mullioned first-floor casement, a tall ground-floor canted bay with a 3-light wooden casement, and a chamfered plinth alongside a hipped roof. The rear elevation displays a central tile-hung gabled roof dormer with a 3-light wooden casement and a gabled full dormer with a mullioned window.

Inside, the top-lit entrance hall has chamfered beams and joists and a staircase with an L-plan, winders, an open balustrade, chamfered newel posts with shaped finials, and a handrail with scrolled ends. A rear staircase mirrors the style of the front staircase. A stone fireplace in the left-hand ground-floor rear room, dating to around 1864, has a chamfered top with a slight ogee and chamfered lower jambs. Four-panelled doors are found throughout, accompanied by boarded shutters with decorative wrought-iron strap hinges in the principal rooms. A foundation stone, visible in the south-east corner of the main range, bears the date "ANo Dm 1864" along with a cross symbol.