The Old Vicarage

1. 5118 BITTON CHURCH LANE (east side) The Old Vicarage ST 6869 15/2 25.6.79 II GV 2. In 2 parts, south-east section built 1778, south-west portion enlarged and rebuilt 1823 and later. Coursed rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, hipped slate roof. Earlier part 2 storeys, 3 bays with recessed centre, windows 2:1:2 sashes, only first floor left hand retaining glazing bars. Central portico with flat entablature on 2 Tuscan columns. Cornice and blocking course. Later part larger in Tudor-Gothic style, two and a half storeys, parapet carried on modillions. Irregular with octagonal chimney shafts, mullion windows and various gables. Ground floor bay window to south-east. Attached to the north of the house by a lower extension is a gabled former coach-house, rubble with slate roof, pigeon holes in gable to west. It is said to contain inscriptions inside including advice 'to my successor' by Rev H T Ellacombe 1835 (he also wrote an excellent archaeological account of the Parish Church). The house is screened from other aspects by the famous and exotic arboretum cultivated by Rev H T Ellacombe, who wrote "In a Gloucestershire Garden" and "In my Vicarage Garden and Elsewhere" circa 1893.

Listing NGR: ST6821969443