The Old Vicarage

The Old Vicarage is a late 18th century rectory, with some Tudor Gothic details, built of small, rock-faced purple sandstone rubble with natural slate roofs. It has a double-depth plan, comprising two parallel ranges and a cross-wing.

The east front, intended as the entrance, has three bays, with the left-hand bay projecting as the gable end of the cross-wing. This projecting bay has a canted bay window on the ground floor with small, multi-paned casements in four lights. Above this is a two-light casement window with eight panes in the upper section and eight in the lower, with a dripmould. Plain bargeboards to the gable end likely indicate a previous re-roofing. A Tudor-style panelled door with a two-centred head and dripmould is centrally located, with a cross-framed casement to the right. Two more two-light casement windows are positioned above, all sharing a similar design. The roof is low-pitched and hipped to the right, with tall brick stacks in the valley behind, featuring three and four tall, diamond-set flues. The north return is blank.

The south front, facing the garden, has a plain finish with three windows on each floor, all two-light casements with elliptical heads. The left-hand bay is a 1985 extension that blends with the original design.

The west front, overlooking the kitchen, includes a single-storey stable range to the left, featuring a window and door with brick heads. The original 17th century house was heightened in the 19th century, and the rear range now features three windows (the third of which is the back door). A projecting wing to the right was added in 1985, designed to match the existing house.

The design and finishes of the 1840s house are well-preserved, along with much of the original joinery, including a straight flight stick baluster staircase. The 17th century section retains a fireplace with chamfered stone jambs, although it has undergone alterations.