The Vicarage

The Vicarage

A vicarage built in the early 17th century, extended in the early 19th century and again in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of slate stone rubble with dressed greenstone quoins.

The earlier 17th-century vicarage on the left possibly followed a three-room or larger through-passage plan. The higher right-hand end has been demolished, leaving the through-passage, a room below the passage heated by a stack backing onto the lower side of the passage, and a shallow wing beyond, heated by a side lateral stack. Masonry at the junction between the central range and shallow wing indicates some rebuilding, incorporating a jamb to a possible blocked opening. A stair has been inserted to the rear of the through-passage in a shallow stair projection.

In the early 19th century, an extension was built, probably on the site of an earlier range on the higher (right-hand) side of the passage. This extension followed a single-depth plan containing two reception rooms flanking a central stair hall. The earlier 17th-century part was then used as a service range. In the mid-19th century, probably during the incumbency of Robert Stapylton Bree (1835-1851), a further single-room wing was added to the rear of the early 19th-century extension, heated by a rear lateral stack.

The building is two storeys. The earlier vicarage to the left has a shallow wing on the left, continued by a gatehouse and garden wall. The early 19th-century extension to the right has a symmetrical three-window front with early 19th-century hornless sashes with crown glass on the first floor. The ground floor features a 16-pane sash in a dressed stone arch on the left, a one-light casement window inserted to the left of a part-glazed 19th-century door, and a 20th-century gabled timber porch. To the right are a re-used small one-light greenstone window and a later 19th-century canted bay window. The first floor has three 16-pane sashes with timber lintels.

In the lower left-hand range, the entrance has a plank door and a two-light mullion window above. To the left is a three-light mullion window and a two-light mullion window in the shallow wing, both with hood moulds. Three-light and two-light mullion windows appear above.

The rear elevation of the 17th-century range has a shallow stair projection on the left with a slate-hung 20th-century extension above. The two-light mullion window to the right has unusual diamond-shaped labels to the hood moulds. A stone-rubble wall has been added to the rear of the later mid-19th-century extension, featuring several mullion windows and cusped arches that are traditionally reputed to have been taken from a house at Trebarwith, 50 yards to the south of Trebarwith Farm.

The interior is not accessible, although the vicar suggests that the early 17th-century range has been considerably remodelled in the 20th century. References to the Terriers of the vicarage, held at the Bishop's Registry in Exeter, are cited in historical sources.