The Vicarage And Flank Wall

PAINSWICK ST MARY'S STREET SO 8609/8709 (part) (south east side) 8/277 The Vicarage and flank wall 21.10.55 (formerly listed as Loveday's House) GV II Also known as Loveday's House. Vicarage, early C18. Limestone ashlar, stone slate roof. A fine clothier's house with hipped roof, V-joint quoins, plinth and modillion cornice; end stone stacks with rich moulded cappings. Symmetrical 5-window front in two storeys and attic; plate glass sashes in eared moulded architraves with triple keystone and moulded sills on console brackets. At ground floor the sashes are larger, with blocked Gibbsian, architraves and to 5 keystones and flat cornice. Three 2-light casement gabled dormers. Central 8-fielded panel door in fluted Doric pilaster doorcase with segmental pediment to entablature with triglyphs. In the plinth, to right, a small grilled opening to cellar. To the right, connecting back to Wycke Cottage (q.v.) an ashlar flank wall rising almost to the cottage eaves; centre has semi-circular dip flanked by finials with ball cappings. The first bay of the adjoining property to the left (Loveday's Cottage) is part of the Vicarage. Interior: ground floor right has two C18 niched cupboards. First floor left has C18 stone fire surround with unusual moulding taken to decorative stops at the top and with central carved swag. Most of the interior which is much less extensive that the front suggests, is of late C19 or early C20 detail. An extension to the garden has a balcony gained through a round-headed dormer doorway. Stone vaulted cellar in right half.

Listing NGR: SO8672409643