De Vaux House

De Vaux House is a building dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, situated on St Nicholas’s Road. Originally part of the College de Valle, founded in 1261 by Bishop Giles Bridport and used as a theological college until the Dissolution, it now forms part of a group with Nos 9 De Vaux Place and No 8 St Nicholas’s Road.

The brick facade has a lst floor string and a coved eaves cornice, with a tile-hung gable facing the front on the right-hand side, topped by a tile roof and two hipped dormers. The windows are a mix of irregular casements, some from the 19th century, others modern with leaded glass. A rectangular bay window is centrally positioned under the gable on the 1st floor, supported by intricately carved wooden brackets, likely dating from the 15th century, featuring scroll and mask motifs. A small stone buttress is located at the right-hand corner.

Two doors are present; the left-hand door has a 3-centred arched head, probably from the 15th century, with a ledged design featuring cusped panel enrichment to the upper part and flat-arched panels with enriched tops. The right-hand door is an early 19th-century pointed arch with applied panel strips on a ledged door. The north wall is constructed of flint with stone quoins, and a carved wooden angel holding a coat of arms is positioned above the left-hand door, likely dating from between the 14th and 15th centuries.