The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a house with origins dating back to the 17th century, and which was heightened and remodelled around 1820 when a new front range was added. It was originally a farmhouse, and later served as a vicarage. The main range is built of stuccoed rubble, with stuccoed channelled pilasters, and some cob, and has slate roofs with gable end stacks and a stack to the rear. The building has a 3-sided courtyard plan. The original farmhouse layout was probably a 3-room plan with a through-passage, and a dairy was added to one end at a lower level. The upper end of the farmhouse was demolished and incorporated into a projecting gable-ended stair turret to the rear of the later, T-shaped Georgian range. The house is two storeys high. The front has a 3-window range of hornless sash windows, with 8 panes per sash; above are intersecting glazing bars over two large sashes with 12 panes each, retaining original glass. A porch has a hipped slate roof and a half-glazed panelled door, flanked by sidelights and pilasters with moulded caps and a cornice. A half-glazed inner door sits above a fanlight with glazing bars. A dentilled cornice marks the entrance hall, which contains an open-well staircase with a moulded string and stick balusters.