The Old Vicarage And Attached Stableyard Wall And Gate Piers

The Old Vicarage, now a house, was built in 1866 and is probably the work of Mallinson and Healey. It is constructed of pink and cream mottled brick in an English garden wall bond, with bands of blue vitreous brick. The building has a sandstone ashlar plinth band, quoins, and dressings, and a slate roof with fishscale slates over the bay windows.

The entrance front is two storeys and four bays, with the centre bays slightly projecting. A panelled front door sits within a two-order, two-centred arch with moulded imposts, the inner order trefoil-shaped, adorned with high-relief rosettes, and the outer coved, with balls. A pointed archivolt of gauged red brick completes the surround. A first floor window is positioned above a moulded eaves course and cogged brick band. The pyramidal roof is topped with a wrought iron finial. An inner gabled bay features 3-light windows on both floors. A round relieving arch over a ground floor window incorporates a low-relief carving of the date within a circular sunk panel; the first floor window has a stepped surround with a high-relief flower carving and a two-centred relieving arch. The windows in the outer bays are two-light sashes, with the left window beneath a low-relief carved panel containing the words "LAUS DEO" in an enriched circular surround and a relieving arch above. Chamfered plinths and a first-floor string are present. The windows are shouldered sashes in quoined surrounds, featuring hollow-chamfered mullions. All gables are coped, and ridge stacks have cogged brick bands.

The garden front is two storeys and five bays, with the inner left gabled and containing an attic; the right end is cross-gabled. A five-light canted bay window is present at the right end, beneath a three-light first floor window in a stepped surround, topped with a two-centred relieving arch and a slit light in the gable apex. Other windows are single, paired, or triple-light, with relieving arches on the ground floor. An attic window of paired lights sits beneath a sunk glazed roundel and relieving arch. A first-floor string runs continuously.

The left return is a two-storey, two-bay front with the right bay cross-gabled. It features a five-light canted bay window and a three-light first floor window in a stepped surround. A two-light ground floor window is located alongside a blank escutcheon in high relief. Relieving arches are present above both ground and first floor windows. Detailing is similar to other fronts. The right return (rear) has a board door with a divided overlight, leading up to a flight of steps. Above the door is a two-centred-arched cross-window with two trefoil-headed lights and a glazed trefoil in the arch’s head, within a gauged brick archivolt, below a half-hipped roof.

The stableyard walls, approximately 3 metres high, have flat coping and are ramped on either side of the gate piers. The gate piers are broach-stopped on high bases, with conical caps.