The Old Vicarage

CHEDWORTH CHEDWORTH VILLAGE SP 0511 11/62 The Old Vicarage

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Former vicarage, now house. Late C18-early C19 possibly on the site of an earlier house with mid C19 extension (in the style of Belcher). Thinly-bedded limestone with dressed stone quoins; stone slate roof with ashlar stacks. Two parallel rectangular ranges to main body with C19 extension and entrance turret at right angles at rear. Main body: 2 storeys, attic and cellar. C19 extension: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-windowed garden front to main body: 12-pane sashes within plain dressed stone architraves and lintels band between floors. Central part-glazed door up 3 stone steps within an open-sided flat-roofed porch with Doric columns and an entablature. C19 canted bay to the right gable end incorporating a 2-light flat-chamfered stone-mullioned casement (now blocked) formerly lighting the cellar; 2-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casements (probably re-used) to the attics at both gable ends; all other windows lighting to gable ends and at the rear sashes with glazing bars some with plain architraves. C19 extension: single 8-pane sashes, twin 8-pane sashes and 12-pane sashes all with dressed stone surrounds. Access via C19 round- headed plank door to entrance turret with a dressed stone surround with an elongated keystone; twin scrolls either side of the keystone; plain frieze above with twin banded ball finials. Gable-end stacks. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP0528511960