The Old Vicarage (aka The Firs)

The Old Vicarage (also known as The Firs) is a substantial 19th-century Gothic vicarage. The building is constructed in Flemish bond brickwork on the west front, with a colourwashed garden front. Painted ashlar dressings and a stone plinth are used throughout. The roof is slate with crested ridge tiles, and tall chimney stacks feature raking offsets, moulded bases, and slender octagonal-shafted flues with moulded caps.

The two-and-a-half-storey west front is irregular in composition with a continuous string course between the first and ground floors. Projecting from the far right corner is a single-storey ashlar bay window with a monopitch slate roof, containing a 4-light transom with transomed side lights, each light with a Tudor arched head. Above on the first floor is a similar 2-light transom. The dominant feature is a large, projecting off-centre gable containing the front entrance. The gable has a coped form with kneelers, a narrow louvred ventilation slit in the gable-head, and a trefoil at the crest surmounted by a square, diagonally-set finial. The gable windows feature Tudor-arched stone mullions, with a tall 2-light mullion on the first floor containing 2+2 panes and a similar ground floor window (to the left) with 1+1 panes. Stone steps lead to the entrance doorway on the right. The ashlar door-surround has a flat head with a steeply pitched hipped canopy and carries a central tablet with a sunk panel inscribed "1867", with outer jambs featuring raking offsets. The Tudor arched entrance doorway has roll moulding and double doors with glazed Tudor arched panels. To the left of the entrance gable, the windows of the west front have stone mullions with flat heads. The attic storey contains a gabled dormer window with a 3+3 pane casement. Below is a two-storey stair projection with a lean-to ashlar roof, featuring a tall 12-pane window on the first floor and a 2-light mullion with 3+3 casements on the ground floor. To the left of the stair projection is a similar ground floor window and a 2-light transom above, with a tall projecting lateral chimneystack further left. On the first floor to the right is a large 2-light transom window.

The garden front is similarly irregular, with an angled string course at the south-east end. The left side of this facade has Tudor arched window lights. At the far left, a 3-light transom has a tall centre light flanked by shorter lights on each side, with a similar arrangement on the first floor. The ground floor features a large projecting ashlar bay window with a hipped roof containing a 3-light transom with a flat head and transomed side lights. Set back to the right is a two-storey addition with a lean-to roof and flat-headed mullions. The first floor has a gabled 3+3 pane dormer and a 2+2 pane window, while the ground floor has a 6-panel door (with the upper 4 panels glazed) and two 3+3 pane mullions. Attached to the ground floor of the far right gable is a single-storey lean-to. The south gable has a 3-light transom on the first floor and a 4-light transom on the ground floor with two tall centre-lights flanked by shorter lights on each side.

The interior is entered through an L-shaped stair lobby with buff and red tile flooring laid in squares with marginal border tiles featuring a running vine ornament. Ground floor rooms have 19th-century 4-panel doors with chamfered panels and moulded ceiling cornices. The former study to the right contains a 20th-century inserted marble fireplace with roundels at the angles. The drawing room features a 19th-century Bath stone fireplace with a Tudor arched head, panelled sides, a band of toothed ornament below the mantleshelf, and a round arched iron register grate. The adjoining library contains a similar 19th-century fireplace with a segmental arched head and toothed ornament. The quarter-turn stair with landings has a closed string, square enriched balusters, and a chamfered square newel post with an octagonal domed cap. The kitchen and service rooms are located to the north, with an adjoining servants stair containing winders. A brick arch-vaulted cellar with stone shelving is situated beneath the building.