Vicarage

The Vicarage is an early 17th-century house, extended in 1652 (as indicated by a datestone) and with 19th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble with alternating angle quoins to the 17th-century parts, and roughly coursed and dressed rubble to the 19th-century additions, all covered by stone slate roofs. The original three-bay house was given a projecting gabled bay to the centre, housing the staircase, and extended to the left in 1652; a slightly lower addition was made to the right in the 19th century. The building is two storeys and attics, with a 1:1:1:1 bay arrangement, the third bay from the left forming a prominent gabled projection. The windows are mostly chamfered and mullioned with dripmoulds, including a half-dormer in the mid-17th-century addition to the left. Most windows are three-light, except for a five-light window to the ground floor of the second bay from the left, a two-light window to the upper part of the gabled projection, and single-light openings to the gabled full dormers in the second bay from the left and the right bay. A 19th-century mullioned and transomed window is located in the canted bay projection to the ground floor of the left bay, and a 19th-century boarded door is immediately to the right. A datestone inscribed "B/WE/1652" is positioned between the windows in the gabled projection. The 19th-century addition to the right continues as a short gabled range to the rear and has three-light mullioned windows on each floor. Integral end stacks are located to the left and right of the 17th-century part; the stack to the left has paired and rebated shafts with dripstones and a 19th-century projecting moulded capping, and the stack to the right has three attached and rebated shafts, also with dripstones and capping. A similar ridge stack (formerly an end stack) to the left of the left gabled full dormer has paired and rebated shafts, and an external end stack to the 19th-century addition has a single shaft. Grotesque heads are applied to the front and rear of the building, probably dating from the 15th century and possibly originally gargoyles. The interior, not inspected in 1987, was noted to contain a Tudor-arched stone fireplace to the left ground-floor room of the original house, and chamfered ceiling beams. The framed newel staircase in the gabled projection has carved finials and pendants, but the original balusters have been replaced by stick balusters.