The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a private house that was originally built as a vicarage around the mid to late 1840s and was partly remodeled in the 1880s. It was rebuilt by John Hawkins Hext, who was admitted in 1843. The building features stuccoed elevations with rusticated quoins on the south front and has a slate roof with hipped ends, arranged around a central well. There are rendered projecting chimney stacks on the hipped ends of the 1840s south range and a rendered axial brick chimney stack for the kitchen on the west side.

The south garden front has two principal rooms and a hall passage that runs from the left (west) side entrance to the stairwell on the right (east) side. This hall passage separates the main south rooms from the service rooms located at the rear (north) side. The south front is two storeys high and has a regular arrangement with rusticated quoins. An addition from the 1880s includes a large two-storey bay window projection on the left, which has a blocked opening near the center and a tall 19th-century 12-pane sash window to the right. The first floor features sashes without glazing bars in the projecting bay on the left and two 19th-century hornless sashes to the right with margin glazing bars.

The west front has a right-hand side that is set slightly forward, also with rusticated quoins and a projecting chimney stack. To the left, there are two 19th-century 16-pane sashes, one with horns, along with a projecting stuccoed porch that has a slate roof and a segmental arched opening. The first floor contains three sashes with margin glazing bars above the ground floor openings.

Inside, the vicarage retains much of its original character, with doors, doorcases, shutters, chimney pieces, and plasterwork largely intact. The entrance hall features a stone and slate flag floor, while the drawing room has a 19th-century marble chimney piece and a plasterwork cornice decorated with an egg and dart motif. The dining room, located on the southeast, includes a 19th-century chimney piece and an ornate plasterwork cornice featuring an egg and dart motif, vine leaves, and grapes. The central open well stair has thin turned balusters on square bases and a ramped rail.