The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a large, detached house dating from the mid-19th century, built as a Gothic style villa and set back from the street. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a concrete tile roof, although some stone slab remains on the rear mansard roof. The house is a complex arrangement of parallel ranges, exhibiting a symmetrical facade to the street but an irregular rear including a large square bay. The street front has two storeys and an attic, with a cellar below, and is three windows wide. It features parapeted hexagonal bays extending through two storeys, coped gables above, and a central oriel with a castellated top. The windows are stone mullioned and transomed, with cusped heads, and a continuous moulded string course runs over the heads of the ground floor windows. The original traceried door is centrally positioned within a 4-centred opening, flanked by two single cusped lights, all beneath a continuous triple-arched drip course. A five-step approach with nosings leads to the door; a plank door and a 4-centred arch are also present within a coped wall to the left, adjoining number 54. Small 2-light casements are found in the attic gables, and the rear wall contains two large 19th-century multi-pane sashes with bars, a small lancet opening, and the square bay with a hipped roof and a large mullioned and transomed three-light window. A plinth runs along the front of the house, with a low boundary wall at the pavement, featuring saddle back coping that extends along the full width of the property, to the adjoining property on the left and to a pier on the right.