The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
gaunt-arch-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Country
England
Date first listed
11 October 1985
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The Old Vicarage is a house dating back to the 17th century, significantly altered and refronted in the early 18th century, with further changes around 1820 and in the mid-19th century. The building is primarily brick to the front, with stone and brick dressings on the sides, some 19th-century brickwork to the right, and timber framing visible internally. The rear has an old tile roof, while the main part of the building features a hipped slate roof dating from around 1820.

The main east front has two wide bays. A taller, gabled bay was added in the mid-19th century. The ground floor has two box sash windows on either side of a blocked central doorway, with a band course above. Five first-floor box sash windows are present, the second, fourth, and fifth windows having thick, early 18th-century glazing bars and segmental arches. A moulded timber cornice runs along the top. A central stack is a feature, and the house was formerly designed with a lobby entry plan. The mid-19th century bay has a later two-storey canted bay window and polychrome brickwork. A lean-to porch with a slate roof shelters the south-facing entrance, which is accessed through sash windows.

Inside, rooms on the ground and first floors of the 17th-century range retain early 17th-century panelling. A ground-floor overmantel bears arcaded panels featuring an inscription, 'Virtutis Amore'. Furthermore, stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and a cross beam are present in the right-hand ground floor room. Timber framing is visible in the rear wall of the front range and in the north-west service wing.

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