Number 26 (The Vicarage) And Stables At No 26

The Vicarage and its stables, dating to the mid-18th century, stand on Maltravers Street. The south front and interiors are particularly significant. The construction combines grey limestone headers with red brick dressings and rusticated quoins. The building is topped with a hipped tile roof and late 19th-century red brick chimneys featuring cornicing. It is two storeys high with attics. The eaves are adorned with a wooden cornice featuring cyma recta modillions. Double-hung sash windows with glazing bars are arranged in three ranges. Three dormers with pitched gables, moulded wooden eaves cornices, and casement windows with glazing bars light the attic space. A porch features fluted Roman Doric columns and pilasters, triglyphs with guttae, a cornice with mutules, and a panelled extrados supported by an ogival lead roof. The main entrance door consists of six fielded panels, preceded by three limestone steps with moulded nosing. The north (garden) elevation may be from the 17th century. It features two gables above the outer two of three window ranges. These ranges are three storeys high, with the ground and first floors having bipartite segment-headed double-hung sashes with glazing bars, and the second floor having casements with glazing bars. A central range incorporates a round-arched staircase window with rubbed brick voussoirs, and a door with intersected Gothic glazing bars. Internally, a staircase boasts Chinoiserie lattice-work balustrades, a ramped handrail to newels decorated with a diagonally latticed motif, and open strings featuring elaborate Rococo moulding. A stair window on the rear (north) elevation is a double-hung sash with intersected Gothic glazing bars, deeply recessed within embrassures displaying elaborate foliate moulding, and a sill supported on two marbled consoles. Ground floor rooms, and some upper rooms, retain wainscotting to dado level. The south-west ground floor room has a moulded cornice with egg and dart modillions and parterae. The south-west first floor room contains a late 18th-century carved fireplace and Vitruvian scroll moulding to the dado. Fielded panelling is a feature of the doors throughout the property. The stables, located to the east of The Vicarage, are constructed of painted brick with a brick modillion eaves cornice and a pitched tile roof. They include a first-floor tripartite double-hung sash window with glazing bars, while the ground floor openings are modern.