The Old Vicarage

NZ 1805-1905 GILLING WITH HARTFORTH AND SEDBURY 14/116 4.2.69

HIGH STREET (west side) Gilling West The Old Vicarage (formerly listed as The Vicarage)

GV II

Vicarage, now house. c1807. For William Hall. Coursed rubble, artificial stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Plinth. Quoins. Central 6-panel door below fanlight with decorative glazing bars in ashlar doorcase within Tuscan distyle portico of 2 columns in front, 2 pilasters behind, supporting cornice with blocking course. Sash windows with glazing bars, stone lintels and raised sills. Ashlar coping. A broad ridge stack towards each end. Rear (south): as the front, but with central part-glazed 6-panel door in architrave with ashlar surround, frieze and pediment. Interior: cantilevered stone open well staircase with moulded nosing and wreathed handrail. This was the church's first vicarage. It is said to have been built by Hall (who took the name Wharton) in 1807 when he married Charlotte Dundas of the neighbouring estate at Aske in order to please his future father-in-law. Extensive servants' quarters at the west end were mostly demolished in 1967. Laybourn K, Historical Notes on the Parish Church of Gilling West, North Yorkshire, (1979), pp 7, 8, 12, 14.

Listing NGR: NZ1824305112