The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a former rectory, rebuilt in 1812 by Robert Cornish of Exeter. It is constructed primarily of whitewashed and rendered stone or stone and cob, with a brick service wing. The roof is slate, hipped at the ends of the main block and to the front of the wing, with a gable to the rear of the wing. The plan features a double-depth design for the main block, with two rooms wide and a direct entrance into a heated hall containing the staircase; a parlour to the right, a large principal room to the rear right, and a dining room to the rear left. The service wing, set at right angles to the main block and adjoining on the left, comprises a single room on plan. The change in walling material may indicate two phases of building construction.

The front elevation has an asymmetrical two-bay arrangement, with the service wing set back to the left and an outshut to the front. The three-bay main block is symmetrical, featuring a 20th-century panelled front door with 19th-century reveals and a moulded doorcase with a cornice. It has twelve-pane sash windows, with the two right-hand windows being 20th-century replacements, and a blind window on the first floor right. The service wing has sixteen-pane first-floor sashes and a twelve-pane sash to the left return of the main block. The right return of the main block features a two-storey bow with 19th-century tripartite sashes, with six-over-nine panes in the centre, flanked by two-over-three pane windows on the ground floor, and a twelve-pane sash flanked by four-pane sashes to the first floor. To the left of the bow are two twelve-pane sashes. The garden elevation has a 20th-century French window, a sixteen-pane sash to the ground floor, two twelve-pane first-floor windows (19th century), and a small 20th-century inserted window. The wing to the right displays two-light 19th or 20th-century first-floor casements, and a ground-floor sixteen-pane sash, with a 20th-century window to the ground floor left.

Inside, the stair hall retains a 19th-century marble chimney-piece and a stick baluster staircase with a turned newel, open string, and ramped handrail. The principal room has a decorative 19th-century plaster cornice and a replaced chimney-piece. It is an attractive early 19th-century vicarage, noted within the Devon Nineteenth Century Churches project.