Old Vicarage

SO 81 SW BROOKTHORPE-with- STROUD ROAD WHADDON (west side), Brookthorpe

5/5 Old Vicarage

GV II

Former vicarage, now large detached house. 1846, by Thomas Henry Wyatt and David Brandon. Coursed and squared rubble limestone; ashlar dressings; stone slate roof. Double-pile, 2-storey; Gothic revival. North front: blank parapet gable end to right of porch has ashlar ridge chimney stack with chamfered sides to shaft and moulded cap; parapet gabled projecting buttressed porch with carved cross above cross-roll saddle and carved inscription picked out in paint above moulded 4-centred archway; inscription reads; 'ps 127' (psalm 127) above incised ribbon with 'nisi dns'; further lettering around archway reads: 'pax intrantibus' and 'salus exertuntibus' all in Gothic script; stained glass in pointed side wall lancets. Scattered fenestration to left of porch dominated by large 6-light mullioned and transomed staircase window with hoodmould; tall 2- light mullioned casement with hood to left, and 2 small 2-light mullioned casements to upper floor. Beyond parapet gabled end lower service wing to left has cross-window in parapet gabled half dormer and other scattered fenestration. Two-window fenestration to west end, that to right in parapet gable being 6-light mullioned and transomed with hoodmould, 2-light above, and carved shield in gable; 2-light in parapet gabled half dormer to left with 2-light below. South elevation has parapet gable to left with hipped- roofed canted 2-storey mullioned and transomed bay window; buttress to right terminates parapet; artificial stone rebuilt ridge mounted chimney stack behind. Single-window fenestration to remainder of elevation: mullioned and transomed with 2-light in parapet gabled half dormer; service wing beyond also with single 2-light to each floor. Parapet double-gabled east end with chimney stack between rising from valley. Interior has many original carved stone fireplaces, especially in principal room, which has richly carved pointed arch; also in this room very fine realistic carved stone foliage on capitals of bay window responds, also carved on face. An unaltered and early example of the High Victorian Gothic revival. (John Martin Robinson, The W atts - An Architectural Dynasty, 1979, page 261; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976.)

Listing NGR: SO8354812231