The Vicarage And Flank Wall

The Vicarage, also known as Loveday's House, is an early 18th-century vicarage located on St Mary's Street in Painswick. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a stone slate roof. This impressive clothier's house has a hipped roof, V-joint quoins, a plinth, and a modillion cornice, with end stone stacks that have rich moulded cappings. The symmetrical front has five windows across two storeys and an attic, with plate glass sashes set in eared moulded architraves that include a triple keystone and moulded sills on console brackets. The larger ground floor sashes have blocked Gibbsian architraves, five keystones, and a flat cornice. There are three gabled dormers with two-light casements. The central entrance features an eight-fielded panel door within a fluted Doric pilaster doorcase, topped by a segmental pediment with triglyphs. A small grilled opening for the cellar is located in the plinth to the right. Connecting to Wycke Cottage, there is an ashlar flank wall that rises nearly to the eaves of the cottage, with a semi-circular dip at the center flanked by finials with ball cappings. The first bay of the adjoining Loveday's Cottage is part of the Vicarage. Inside, the ground floor to the right has two 18th-century niched cupboards, while the first floor to the left features an 18th-century stone fire surround with unusual moulding that extends to decorative stops at the top and a central carved swag. Most of the interior, which is less extensive than the front suggests, dates from the late 19th or early 20th century. An extension to the garden includes a balcony accessed through a round-headed dormer doorway, and there is a stone vaulted cellar in the right half of the building.