The Old Vicarage And Attached Area Railings

The Old Vicarage, now a house, was built in 1889 by John Bevan. This vicarage features red brick with yellow and black brick decoration, limestone dressings, brick end stacks, and a tiled roof. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Venetian Gothic Revival style, comprising two storeys and an attic with a two-bay range. The asymmetrical front includes a central three-centre arched door with an overlight of four mullioned trefoiled windows, all set within a rectangular architrave and label mould. The windows have ovolo mullions and transoms, with a full-height canted bay immediately to the left of the door featuring three central lights and a three-light dormer above, adorned with barge-boards on corbelled brackets. The right-hand bay has a four-light ground-floor window with ashlar weathering above and three-light first-floor windows, plus a blind dormer above. The tympana of the dormers showcase patterned brickwork, and the front displays yellow and black brick stripes and patterns. Inside, there is a central hall and an open-well stair at the rear, featuring coarsely fretted banisters and a turned newel, along with a large lancet stair window in the rear elevation. The property also has subsidiary features, including an attached short dwarf wall that curves from the doorway to a round pier and a coped front area wall. This building is a notable example of Gothic design in Bristol, distinguished by its polychromatic brickwork, similar to the nearby St Philip's Public Library.