The Old Vicarage

VICTORIA ROAD SX 9680 8815 TOP SHAM 871/8/10005 The Old Vicarage II

Villa. Probably 1860's. Stuccoed with a gabled slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts. Italianate. Plan: Approximately rectangular double depth plan, the entrance elevation facing south west. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay south west front with a deep eaves cornice carried on moulded brackets. The outer bays are under pedimented gables, slightly broken forward with quoins with chamfered rustication. Shallow projecting porch with a round-headed rusticated doorway flanked by wide pilasters decorated with a sunk moulding. Above the pilasters carved corbels support paired brackets below the porch cornice. Probably original 6-panel front door below a plain fanlight. Canted bay windows to left and right of the porch with elaborately scrolled and carved brackets below the cornices; segmental-arched windows glazed with plate glass 2-pane sashes. Moulded stringcourse at first floor sill level. Above the porch a 2- pane sash with an eared shouldered architrave. To left and right paired round-headed sashes with moulded hoodmoulds with keystone and bunches of fruit carved below the dripstone terminals. The 3-bay left return (north west elevation) continues in the same style with rusticated quoins, an eaves cornice with eaves brackets and a shallow gabled projection to left of centre, the gabled pedimented. The left hand ground floor window has a moulded architrave and moulded sill brackets and is glazed with a 4-pane sash. The ground floor window in the gabled projection has a moulded architrave; segmental head with a keystone and moulded sill brackets. It is glazed with a C19 4-pane sash with margin panes. To the right, a canted bay window matching those on the south west front. First floor window right has a moulded architrave and sill brackets; the first floor window in the projection is round-headed with a moulded hoodmould, keystones and bunches of fruit carved under the dripstone terminals. The window is glazed with a 4-pane sash. First floor window right has a moulded shouldered architrave with a keystone and is glazed with a 4-pane sash. Interior: Interior and rear elevation not inspected. Interior known to retain moulded cornices, ceiling roses, shutters, C19 style marble chimney-pieces and a stair with turned balusters. The building was called Parkfield House in 1878 and was lived in by Mr Thomas Charles Tothill (White's Devonshire). It was in use as the Vicarage by 1935

Listing NGR: SX9680588150