The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a vicarage that has been converted into a house, dated 1717, and likely has an older section at the rear. The 1717 part was built for John Robinson, who was the Bishop of London. The building features roughcast walls and a stone slate roof on the main range, with concrete interlocking tiles on the rear range. It has an L-shaped plan and is two storeys high with a loft, comprising three bays in the main range.

The exterior includes chamfered rusticated ashlar quoins and a central 20th-century vertically-panelled door with a lozenge-glazed top panel, set in an ashlar surround with deep bolection moulding. Above the door is an ashlar plaque displaying a coat of arms topped with a bishop's mitre, inscribed with "1717 Joh Robinson Eps. London." On the ground floor to the left, there is an early 20th-century square bay window. The other windows are 6-pane unequally hung sashes framed in timber architraves, each with cornices and projecting sills supported on brackets. The building features shaped kneelers and ashlar coping, with brick stacks at the ends.

The right side of the building has a single-storey lean-to addition, which is not of special interest, and above it are a 9-pane unequally hung sash window and a 6-pane fixed-light window. Further along the right side, the rear range has a 20th-century casement window on each floor, along with shaped kneelers, ashlar coping, and a brick stack at the right end.

The interior has not been inspected recently but is said to contain an old dogleg staircase, likely from 1717. John Robinson, the original owner, was born in Cleasby in 1650 and had a distinguished career, serving as Chaplain to the English Embassy in Sweden, Bishop of Bristol, Lord Privy Seal, First Plenipotentiary to the Congress of Utrecht, and finally Bishop of London before his death in 1723.