The Old Vicarage

CORSE CHURCH LANE SO 72 NE (south side)

10/24 The Old Vicarage

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House. Second half C18 for Rev. R. Gregg, altered early C19. Flemish bond brickwork front, English garden wall bond to side and extension, tiled roof, slate to rear wing. Hollow square, each side 1 room deep, front 3½ storeys, rest 2. Main front, windows with stone sills and flat rubbed brick arches. Central half- glazed door up 2 stone steps, moulded surround, flush panels to reveals: plain pilasters and pediment late C20 replacing added porch. Sash window each side. First floor, sash window each side, semi-circular head to centre sash, with blind single-lights to form false Venetian window. Three sash windows to second floor, dentil eaves. Brick gable chimneys, dentil course to caps. Right return blind openings to each floor on left side, cambered brick arches, on right 4-pane casement ground floor, sashes above. Rear of front wing, to courtyard, blind openings: two 2-light casements to dormers. Interior: entrance hall floor above rooms each side, left with plastered barrel vault. Stairs moulded, swept handrail, turned newels, plain, slightly rectangular balusters. First floor 6 fielded panels to doors; panelled shutters to room on left, folding panelled doors to room behind, moulded plaster cornice: tripartite window. Four fielded panels to second floor doors: moulded stone surround to fireplace in room on right, cast-iron grate with swivel support for kettle. Built as 2 parallel wings connected only by an open courtyard: wings each side added in C19. (V.C.H., Gloucestershire, Vol VIII, 1972.)

Listing NGR: SO7910526713