The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a house built in 1889 and restored around 1975, designed by Ernest George and Harold Peto. It is constructed of hammer-dressed sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings and a Rosemary tile roof, and is in a Jacobethan style.

The entrance front is two-and-a-half and two-storey, with four bays. A full-height, projecting gabled porch is on the right, and there are twin cross gables to the left. The porch has a round-headed double board door within a flat-arched surround with moulded spandrels. Above it is a three-light mullion window. To the left of the porch is a four-light mullion window, and to the right a two-light mullion window. A tall mullion and transom window for the staircase is to the left of the porch. The cross gables have two-light windows in the attic. Windows to the left of the porch feature flat moulded hoods. A massive external stack with offsets is located to the right of the porch.

The garden front has paired, two-storey and attic gable ends. Glazed doors in the centre lead into a replacement conservatory; these are flanked by two-light mullion and transom windows. A first-floor window to the right has three mullioned lights, while the others are two-light. A stack rises from the valley between the gable ends.

The rear of the house is two-storey and attic, with a four-window front. A square bay on the ground floor centre has a four-light mullion and transom window. The remaining windows are two and three-light, with the first-floor window to the right having foiled heads. There is a three-light dormer in the attic with a half-hipped gable. All window and door openings have flat quoined surrounds, and all windows have square leaded lights with cavetto-moulded mullions. All gables have coped verges with kneelers.

The interior features a closed-string, dogleg staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail, which is panelled below. The front room to the left of the entrance contains a carved fireplace with a surround of paired, fluted Ionic columns carrying an entablature that breaks forward at each end. The front room to the right and the rear section of the centre room have fireplaces with recessed panelled overmantels. The ground floor has original doors with square recessed panels.