Pilgrims The Old Vicarage

SU 09 NE DOWN AMPNEY DOWN AMPNEY VILLAGE (north side)

8/98 The Old Vicarage and Pilgrims

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Former vicarage, now divided into two separate houses. 1865 by E J Tarver. Coursed rubble stone with flush quoins, stone slate roof, stone stacks with large grouped brick flues with oversailing courses. Double range. Range to south, The Old Vicarage, of 2 storeys and attic with former bell tower and chapel on south-east corner. Four windows, 2-storey projecting canted bay to left with 1/3/1-light stone mullion and transoms, and 3/2/1-light wood mullion and transoms to rest. Ground floor similar but with segmental stone heads to non-bay windows. Three hipped dormers. Small octagonal bell tower of 2 storeys with narrow door on ground floor and carved inscription recording Vaughan Williams' birth, small chapel with tile floor and 2-light window to west, 3-light to east. Interior of house completely altered. Range to north, Pilgrims, former front of house, of 2 storeys, with mid/late C18 cottage linked by gateway to left. Large projecting steep gabled 2-storey porch to left with sprocketed roof, pointed arch window with blind arch and 2-light wood mullion and transom over entrance across corbelled out corner, with shouldered arch, roll moulded jambs and half-glazed door. Two small gables to right of different sizes with one and 2- light wood mullion and transoms, and 3-light below with segmental head, with blocked window to right. Cottage to left of rubble stone, stone slate roof and stone ridge stack, 2 storeys with scattered fenestration, mostly casements. Birthplace of Ralph Vaughan Williams on 12th October 1872.

Listing NGR: SU0986497193