The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a single house located on Clay Lane in Beaminster, built between 1859 and 1861 by architect William White. The building features rubble-stone walls with stone quoins and a clay tile roof adorned with cresting and stone gable copings. It has an asymmetrical arrangement of stacks at the ridge, with one positioned right of center and another on the left-hand projecting gable. The structure includes four steep gables of varying heights, with the main gable projecting on the left and a smaller projecting gable on the right. There are two smaller center gables that feature plate-tracery with a quatrefoil above. The house has three storeys and approximately four stone mullioned windows. An entrance porch is located in the left gable, which has a later masking extension. The rear elevation is also asymmetrical, featuring a canted bay on the right side that is tile-hung, along with a buttress that has a long set-off.