Richmond Lodge And The Old Vicarage

Richmond Lodge and The Old Vicarage are a vicarage, built in 1814 and enlarged in 1870, with 20th-century additions. Originally part of St Stephen’s Church, the building is now divided into two separate houses. The structure is limestone ashlar with a double-pitched slate roof, featuring moulded stacks to the gable ends.

The exterior presents two storeys and a basement, originally with symmetrical three-window fronts to the street and garden. The Old Vicarage occupies the main, left-hand part of the original house, while Richmond Lodge occupies the right-hand range and the 1870 set-back addition. A projecting, enclosed porch fronts Richmond Road, with an entablature over a cornice supported by consoles, above a four-panel door and a large overlight with lozenge and double margin panes. There are small rooms behind a continuous garden wall to either side. A coped parapet and first-floor sill band encircle the building. The parapet to the entrance front rises to meet two stacks at the gable ends, and a wide cornice is slightly returned to the right, incorporating a frieze and a fully returned lintel. A six/six-pane sash window is at the centre of the first floor, flanked by blind windows with painted glazing bars. The garden front features six/six-pane sash windows; those on the first floor have trellised balconettes. A trellised balcony to the ground floor has slender stylised Ionic columns with lozenge decoration, a frieze and a screen, supporting an upswept, part-glazed canopy, with stone steps leading up to it on each side. A mid-19th century canted bay fills the centre, with six/six-pane sash windows flanking 20th-century French windows. The rear features six/six-pane sashes, two with margin panes. An addition to the right has a parapet sweeping up over a six/six-pane sash window with a trellised balconette. A glazed conservatory is likely from the 20th century. Recessed quadrant bays are located at the front corners on both the right front and rear. These have narrow plate glass sash windows to each floor. An external stack to the right return displays a carved stone wreath to the ground floor, double garlands above a raised panel to the first floor, and a swag to a moulded stack. A rear wing features a stack with a similar shaft above a single-storey, hip-roofed block with a parapet and cornice.

The interior of The Old Vicarage retains much original joinery and plasterwork; the interior of Richmond Lodge was not inspected.