The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a villa, likely dating from the 1860s. It is constructed of stuccoed walls with a gabled slate roof and rendered chimney shafts. The design is Italianate. The building is approximately rectangular and faces southwest.

The symmetrical front elevation has three bays, featuring a deep eaves cornice supported by moulded brackets. The outer bays are slightly advanced, with pedimented gables and rusticated quoins. A shallow, projecting porch is flanked by wide pilasters with a sunk moulding and is surmounted by carved corbels supporting paired brackets beneath the porch cornice. The original six-panel front door is below a plain fanlight. Canted bay windows flank the porch, with elaborate scrolled and carved brackets supporting the cornices, and segmental-arched windows with plate glass two-pane sashes. A moulded stringcourse runs along the first-floor sill level. Above the porch is a two-pane sash with an eared, shouldered architrave. Paired round-headed sashes, also with moulded hoodmoulds, key stones and bunches of carved fruit below the dripstone terminals, are positioned to either side.

The three-bay northwest elevation continues in a similar style, featuring rusticated quoins and an eaves cornice with brackets, and a shallow gabled projection. A ground-floor window on the left has a moulded architrave and sill brackets with a four-pane sash. The ground-floor window in the gabled projection has a segmental head with a keystone, moulded sill brackets, and a 19th-century four-pane sash with margin panes. A canted bay window matching those on the front elevation is placed to the right. A first-floor window to the right is set within a moulded architrave, and the first-floor window in the projection is round-headed with a moulded hoodmould, keystones, and bunches of carved fruit under the dripstone terminals, fitted with a four-pane sash. A further first-floor window to the right has a moulded, shouldered architrave and is glazed with a four-pane sash.

The interior is known to retain moulded cornices, ceiling roses, shutters, 19th-century style marble chimney-pieces, and a staircase with turned balusters. The building was formerly known as Parkfield House and was occupied by Mr. Thomas Charles Tothill. By 1935, it was in use as the Vicarage.