The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a house, originally built in the early 19th century, and possibly extended in 1874. It was designed by Humphry Repton and John Addey Repton and constructed in 1806 for George Freke Evens. The building is constructed of squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and has ashlar porches, a Welsh slate roof, and a lead roof. The design incorporates a double-depth plan.

The front elevation features a pair of flush gables, with a central, gabled porch projecting forward. It has a three-window range of unhorned sash windows with glazing bars, set in chamfered ashlar surrounds with keystones. The first-floor windows are shorter. The porch has an outer archway with a four-centred arch-head, and an inner, part-glazed door with a semi-circular fanlight containing glazing bars. Angle buttresses at the corners of the porch rise as short pinnacles. A flat roof with a plain parapet and a glazed rooflight is set back between the gables. The gables have ashlar parapets with tall finials. An internal ashlar stack has four diagonal flues.

A later 19th-century, two-window range attached to the right was originally a service range, featuring leaded casements under shallow stone arches and a 19th-century part-glazed door to the left. Another elevation to the left of the entrance front is a two-window range, with a gable to the left. A five-light, canted, stone mullion bay window is on the left, with a three-light stone mullion window above, and a similar two-light window to the attic, all with arched head lights. Similar two-light windows are to the right. The gable has stepped ashlar parapets with a tall finial at the eaves and apex, and incorporates a date stone in its apex. A further elevation to the left has a three-window range of sash windows similar to the entrance front, with a 20th-century glazed door and a chamfered ashlar surround.

The interior of the ground floor is on two levels, accessible by a central staircase featuring early 19th-century stick balustrades. Original early 19th-century door surrounds have corner roundels and panelled window reveals. Early 19th-century fireplaces are found in some first-floor rooms. Correspondence between Free Evans of Laxton Hall and Repton indicates Mr. Evans' dissatisfaction with the building's construction.