Building record 3907/4/1 - The Old Vicarage

{1} Vicarage, now old people's home. 1873 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, plain tile roofs with coped gables and decorative ridge cresting, moulded stone ridge stacks. Tudor style. 2 storeys and attic. 2 parallel ranges with cross-wing to left. South front has projecting full-height porch with board door in moulded Tudor arched surround with hood mould over a 2-light and a 3-light mullioned and transomed window with cornice above, and a coped gable with kneelers and finials. To left of this, is a tall mullioned and transomed stair window and to right 3 bays with a picturesque variety of windows with moulded stone surrounds, the larger ones mullioned and transomed. Plate casements. Cross-wing to left incorporated full-width canted bay at ground floor level, with huge traceried corbels at the angles carrying coped gable with kneelers and finials. 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with cornices to first and attic floors. Range to rear projects slightly to right and a timber porch is embraced in the angle. Similar but plainer details to rear. Interior not inspected.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/359 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), K1/4 p.150 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.450 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

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Feb 16 2011 11:24AM