The Old Prebendal House

ST31SE CUDSWORTH CP

2/25 The Old Prebendal House - GV II

(Vicarage on OS map). Former vicarage, now private house, Cl7, modified in C19. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof with plain overhung gables; stone end chimney stacks. 'T'-plan; 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, symmetrical facade. Plinth; ovolo-mould mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses, the lower 4-light with labels; the upper 3-light with flat lintel-heads to outer bays, with a C19 2- light chamfered mullioned window to upper bay 2; C19 door to lower bay 2, protected by an open timber porch, above which is the water table for an earlier porch. West gable has chamfer-mullioned windows to each level, 4-light to ground floor, 3-light to first floor and 2-light to attic, all with labels and all now blind. East gable has 3-light blocked windows to ground and first floors, and indications of an attic window formerly. Another 4-light mullioned window in rear elevation, and rear extension has a window apparently made from a former cambered-arched doorframe, Internal plan of 3 rooms, the rear extension being the kitchen, with lower floor, cambered arched fireplace in north gable wall and oven alongside, with curing chamber: other rooms adapted with C19 fireplaces behind blocked windows. An unusual plan for the date, but it is clearly described in, and and identifiable from, a Glebe Terrier of 1636 (VCH Somerset, Vol IV l978; VAG Report, unpublished SR0, l984).

Listing NGR: ST3736910898