Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1987. Vicarage. 1 related planning application.
Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- steep-bailey-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1987
- Type
- Vicarage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Vicarage is likely from the early 18th century, with significant remodelling in 1789 (indicated by a datestone) and extensions added around the 1830s. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble, with the west front slate-hung. The roofs are slate and asbestos slate, with hipped ends to the older west range and a hipped end to the later rear wing on the southeast side.
The original layout of the early 18th-century west range was probably a two-room plan with a central passage. The left-hand (north) room was heated by an end stack, and the right-hand (south) room by a rear lateral stack. The west front was slate-hung around 1789. In the early 1830s, a rear wing was added that created an āLā shaped plan. This involved remodelling the west range, blocking the original entrance, and inserting a back stair in the passage. The south wing included two reception rooms, an axial stack on the garden front, and an entrance hall and stair on the north side. An entrance porch was added to the northeast corner, and a service range was constructed in the 1830s or 1840s, set in the angle between the original west range and the new south wing.
The west front has an almost symmetrical three-window facade with segmental arches over the ground-floor openings. A 20th-century glazed door is on the left, and two 19th-century 16-pane sash windows are in the center and on the right. The datestone "1789" is above the central opening. The first floor has three early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sashes. The south garden front also presents an almost symmetrical three-window appearance, with early 19th-century hornless sashes. Two 12-pane sashes flank a central, early 19th-century canted bay window with three 12-pane sashes above. A 24-pane hornless sash window illuminates the stairwell on the east elevation, which features a 19th-century single-storey porch in the northeast corner.
The interior retains much original 19th-century detailing, including fireplaces with cast iron hob grates dating from the early to mid-19th century. An open-well stair with stick balusters and a ramped rail was added around 1830. The roof structure over the west range is of circa early 18th-century origin, with oak pegged joinery featuring collars and apices of principals halved, lap-jointed, and pegged.
A terrier from 1727 describes a house of stone, covered with slate, with five rooms and four chambers, a hall of two bays floored with clift stone, and four others with earth floors. This may correspond to part of the existing vicarage.
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