The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a vicarage, divided into flats, dating from around 1840 and designed by John Hayward of Exeter. It was built at a cost of £1,900. The building has a roughly L-shaped plan, with a main block facing northeast and a rear wing to the right. The external appearance is characterised by plastered walls, bitumen-painted hipped slate roofs, and five chimney stacks with rendered or brick shafts. The northeast-facing front elevation has three bays, a plinth, deep eaves, and 12-pane sash windows (some original to the ground floor). A shallow, central porch features corner pilasters and a large cornices. The rear wing also has 12-pane sash windows but lacks a plinth. Some doors were replaced during a conversion in the 1970s. A timber bellcote, with a bell-shaped bell supported on four posts, sits on the roof. Internally, fragments of plaster cornices and archways remain; the original internal arrangements are no longer visible due to conversion to flats. John Hayward was a leading ecclesiastical architect in Devon during the 1840s and 1850s, producing parsonages in both Gothic and Classical styles. Architectural drawings of the house are held in the Devon Record Office.