Vicarage With Carriage House, Stable And Outbuildings In Attached Walled Yard

The vicarage, along with its carriage house, stable, and outbuildings within an attached walled yard, was built in 1839 for the Reverend T Allanson. Constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, it features grey slate roofs. The two-story vicarage has three bays, with a courtyard to the west. The central entrance features a four-panel door with a large overlight, set within a doorcase of attached columns supporting a plain entablature and deep cornice. Flanking the door are fifteen-pane sash windows with stone sills; the first floor windows also have glazing bars and a continuous sill band, all with gauged brick arches. A moulded eaves cornice runs along the top, while the hipped roof has paired ridge stacks at the centre. The interior includes brick-lined cellars and four-panel doors. Original shutters and moulded ceiling cornices, incorporating Greek key and rose motifs, are present in the main front and rear rooms. A large central entrance hall contains an original staircase of two straight flights with turned balusters, and a moulded ceiling cornice on the landing. The walled yard contains stables, a carriage house, and further outbuildings attached to the west side of the house. The front wall of the service wing forms the east end of the north wall of the yard, which is approximately 2.5 metres high, with an ashlar coping and ramped down to brick gate piers with flat ashlar caps. A small lean-to stable or outbuilding in the courtyard, against the west end of the north wall, has a board door and a four-pane side-sliding sash window. The carriage house, on the western side of the courtyard, has two bays of two stories, with a single-story bay to the left. Two twentieth-century garage doors are present; the left-hand door, under a segmental arch in headers and stretchers, is original. Above the doors are two small square loading doors in segmental-headed openings. A single-story bay attached to the left has a board door and a chimney at the left end. To the south of the courtyard, a gate provides access to the garden, and a range of three outbuildings with board doors and small-paned windows are attached to the house. The present vicarage was built following a period in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the previous vicarage was in poor condition, preventing the vicar from living in the village.