The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage

This is a two-storey building with attic, built from rubble stone with quoins and covered by a half-hipped asymmetrical slate roof. A lower wing extends to the west, also with a half-hipped roof. Two masonry ridge stacks and a lateral stack serve the building. The entrance front faces north and features a cross gable to the left of centre and a second bay to the right with a hipped roof, both projecting beyond the main north elevation, which has lower eaves than the south side.

Throughout the building, the windows have distinctive iron glazing in lozenge and elongated hexagon designs set under almost flat stone arches of voussoirs. The entrance is positioned on the right side of the cross gable, sheltered by a gabled porch with decorated barge boards. The door itself is panelled and studded, set beneath a Tudor arch. To the left of the entrance is a two-light casement window. The first floor contains a cross window, while a lancet window sits in the apex of the gable. The gable is finished with cusped barge boards. In the northwest angle between the cross gable and main range is a slight projection housing the stairs with a stairlight window, and to its right is a similar single-light window with transom. The advanced bay to the right of the wall contains a single light window offset to the left, with a long single-storey range abutting its right side and extending north. This range has a yellow brick stack and a two-light window on its upper storey, with a barred window in the north gable end.

The west side of the single-storey range has two boarded doors and a two-light casement window to the left of the right door, all set under segmental heads with voussoirs.

At the west end of the main range is a four-light attic window with iron glazing matching those elsewhere. At ground level, in the angle with the lower range, sits a lean-to porch containing a door to the left and a four-light window with diamond quarries to the right. The lower range is two bays, with the right bay set forward and containing a cross window with iron glazing. The left bay has a planked door to the left and a single light to the right with the same iron glazing, both positioned within a wide blocked Tudor arch. The west gable end of this range has a door offset to the left and a boarded door to the first storey, with a hoist beam above flanked by ventilation slits.

The east end of the house features a buttress to the right with a stack rising behind. Beyond this is an outshut section set slightly back, containing original fenestration all under almost flat arches of voussoirs. The ground floor has French doors with large panes and overlight, the first floor has a three-light window, and the attic has a two-light window with iron glazing. The outshut section has a cross window to the ground floor and a two-light window above.

The rear elevation is three windows wide, with an advanced cross gable to the right of centre and the left bay set forward. Window heads match those on the front and contain PVCu windows, some within original openings. French doors have been inserted in the centre. The lower wing has a twentieth-century door and window to the right and a twentieth-century attic window in a gabled half dormer.

Interior

The front door opens into a large square hall with a flagstone floor. A dog leg staircase to the east side is not in its original position. A passage runs the length of the house from the rear of the hall, with the rear door at the west end. The main reception rooms are positioned to the rear, with a service staircase at the west end. The attic was formerly used as school rooms. The room to the west with the large window served as the teacher's office, while a long school room occupies the east end. This school room retains some original shelving for books and coat pegs, though the earliest pegs have been moved downstairs. The lower range to the west contains stables to the right, divided into two stalls by a boarded partition.