The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is likely a 14th-century building, with a major rebuilding in the mid-16th century, and further additions and alterations including restorations and rebuilding around 1982. It is timber framed with magnesian limestone rubble, brick walls, and a pantile roof, with a lower row of stone slates and original stone tiles to the porch roof. The original design was an open-hall house, which has been extended to a cross-shaped plan with a later range to the rear. The building is of a single and a half storeys, with four bays. An off-centre entrance is within a late 20th-century plank door within a porch. Casement windows and 12-pane Yorkshire sash windows are found throughout. Ridge and rear stacks are present. A small priest’s window is located at the rear.

Inside, substantial remains of the original timber framing are visible within the central hall, which has been restored from a two-storey structure back to its original state, and in the later sections of the building. The hall itself consists of two bays, featuring posts and remains of chamfered tiebeams, a wall plate, and exposed studding. The roof has smoke-blackened rafters. At the rear of the cross wing, more timber framing is visible, and at first-floor level is a possible 16th-century brick fireplace with chamfered jambs and an elliptical-arched head. Chamfered beams are present in some other rooms.