The Close

The Close is a circa 1820s vicarage, now a private house, with alterations in the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. It is constructed of rubblestone with a slate roof, featuring hipped ends to the projecting bays. A rendered brick stack is visible on the ridge on the left, and a brick stack in the projecting rear right-hand wing has five classical pots. The building’s plan has been altered considerably.

The house has two storeys and a symmetrical south front. A central, projecting rubblestone porch, likely a later addition, stands on a granite plinth, rendered on the front, and is flanked by pilasters with granite bases and caps. A central timber door is beneath a hipped slate roof. Flanking the porch are two-storey wings with full-height, shallow canted ends, each featuring two tall, original sashes with six panes to each, set beneath flat voussoirs on the ground floor. The first floor windows are smaller sashes, also with six panes each, displaying exposed sash boxes in a central recess. All windows contain crown glass. A single-storey extension has been added to the west side. The west front has five windows, with the three leftmost windows belonging to a separate property, The Old Rectory. The east front has two sashes with six panes per sash on both the ground and first floors, interspersed with two single-light, four-pane casements. The rear (north) part of the house and the former service wing to the rear left (northwest) have become a separate house (The Old Rectory) and are not included in this listing.