The Old Vicarage And Garden Walls Adjoining To South

The Old Vicarage is an early 19th-century vicarage, later converted into a house, situated on The Square in North Molton. It underwent remodelling in the mid to late 19th century. The building is rendered over stone rubble and has gable-ended scantle-slate roofs, with a hipped staircase projection at the rear. It features 19th-century red-brick stacks, one of which is rendered. The original plan comprised a central-entrance layout with two rooms, a central entrance hall, a square staircase projection to the rear, and flanking rooms. There are external stacks to the left and an integral stack to the right. A lower, likely former service wing is set back to the left. The 19th-century alterations included new windows, a porch, and the garden walls to the front.

The exterior presents three bays. There are mid to late 19th-century plate-glass tripartite sashes in the outer bays, and a 19th-century four-pane sash window on the first floor in the centre. The original early 19th-century six-panelled front door has a beaded lower section with two panels and glazed upper section (likely a later alteration). A mid to late 19th-century gabled wooden porch has pierced bargeboards, a half-glazed door with ogee-headed side lights, and three-light panels to the side walls. The former service wing has early 19th-century sixteen-pane sashes, originally with four panes across and two up, which have been converted into top-opening casements, probably in the 20th century. The rear staircase projection has an early 20th-century twenty-pane sash with four panes across; the top leaf has two panes and the bottom leaf three panes.

The interior includes an entrance hall with a late 19th-century encaustic tiled floor and a possibly early 19th-century staircase with an open string and two balusters per tread. A ground-floor room on the left has an early 19th-century rear recess with reeded pilasters. A ground floor room (the kitchen) has an early 19th-century fireplace with a beaded surround and mantel shelf. Throughout the ground floor are early 19th-century four-panelled doors with moulded architraves, along with panelling to window reveals and shutters. The first floor was not inspected.

The front garden is enclosed by mid to late 19th-century low stone-rubble walls with chamfered copings and square piers with pyramidal stone caps. Small wrought-iron gates flank the porch, leading to garden areas to the left and right of the entrance.