The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a building with origins in the 17th century, significantly altered and extended in the 18th and 19th centuries, and later altered again. It is now divided into two houses. The building is constructed of rubble with stone dressings, rendered in parts. It has a slate roof with raised coped verges and several chimney stacks, including an external stack to the front. The front elevation has a 2½-storey arrangement, with a gabled projecting wing to the right, and a 2:1 window arrangement. The windows are sashes, set in moulded architraves with keystones and cills on brackets. There are two dormer gables to the left. A central porch has a round-headed opening with impost blocks, pilasters, a cornice on brackets, a parapet, and coping. A side light of 10 panes is to the right of the porch, with a panelled and fielded door with a transom light. A 20th-century door and conservatory are on the left. A lower two-storey wing to the right has a single window; the first floor has a sash in a plain reveal and the ground floor has a 20th-century window and door. The west elevation is divided into three parts, with a lower two-storey block to the left, a central block stepped up to the main block to the right, and a 1:1:2 window arrangement. The left block has sashes at ground and first floor, and a plank door to the right. The central block has sashes at ground and first floor. The main block features a two-storey canted bay to the right, with three sashes at each level, and a sash to the first floor and ground floor left. Side lights are at ground floor, all in matching surrounds. Ground-floor windows rise from ground level. Dormer gables are present each with a sash. The left and centre blocks have a parapet and cornice. Attached to the north wall is a plank and fillet door with a four-centred arched head within a chamfered stone surround. The east elevation, also of two storeys and three windows, displays varied window styles, including a 17th-century six-light casement with a loop catch on the ground floor left, with leaded lights to some openings, and iron stanchions in places. The interior is not accessible. The building forms part of an important group of buildings at a crossroads.