The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a house of 1864, designed by Rowell of Newton Abbot for Reverend Hogg. It was originally built as a rectory, and is situated immediately east of the parish church of St Mary. The building is constructed from local red snecked breccia with Bathstone dressings, and has a slate roof with stacks featuring stone shafts and freestone caps. It is included on the list for group value with the church and school, all associated with Reverend Hogg’s memorial scheme.

The house is in a Free Gothic style, with an asymmetrical three-window front. The front elevation has two gables at either end, with the left-hand bay slightly set back and scalloped bargeboards. The central entrance bay has a steep pyramidal roof and a diagonal buttress with coped set-offs. Stone-framed window and door openings feature relieving arches or voussoirs. The windows are mostly original plate-glass 2-pane sashes. The front door is double-chamfered and has a cranked arch, with a cranked arch overlight, and retains its original 6-panel design. A shallow projecting stack with coped set-offs is on the left-hand side. The ground floor window to the right has chamfered stopped lintels, with a similar window above. A two-light window above the door also features 2-centred arched lights. The garden elevation, with a central gabled projection, has shoulder-headed arched windows, and a single-storey canted bay with high transomed windows and a timber corbel course to support guttering, a feature repeated on the contemporary parish church. The west end has two gables and is in a similar style. The north elevation consists of three staggered gabled blocks and a fine two-light stair window with trefoil-headed lights and a trefoil below the sill. A service door is located in the right-hand block.

The interior retains original chimney-pieces, joinery, and staircase, although it wasn't examined in detail during the survey.