Building record 3721/2/1 - No.3 Church Lane (The Old Vicarage)

Manor house. C16th. Regular coursed limestone with lias dressings.

{1} Manor house. C16th. Regular coursed limestone with lias dressings. Half H-plan. 2 storeys with attic. Entrance front of 3-window range with flanking gabled cross wings breaking forward. 4-light stone-mullioned windows to ground floor and 3-light stone-mullioned windows to first floor and attic reducing in width at attic level. C19 part-glazed door to right of centre under 4-centre moulded stone head. 2-light cellar window to left of door. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers and ashlar stacks at ridge. Elevation to right, abutting road, is of 4-window range of 2- and 3-light stone-mullioned windows. Rear is similar with projecting cross wing to left. Interior: hall has C16 staircase with heavy turned balusters and panelling with incised decoration. Room to right of entrance has C16/C17 fireplace with 4-centred moulded stone arch. Said to have datestone 1510. Used for a time as the vicarage.

{3} Undated photo.

{4} The vicarage, said to have been originally the manor-house, is a large 17th century building with mullioned windows under parallel gabled roofs.

{5} Grade I. In excellent condition and the interior is only a little altered.

{6} The building, now scheduled, is in good condition. See photo.

{7} [Former list description] 2467, GREAT DODDINGTON, Church Lane, The Vicarage (The Manor House) SP 86 SE 9/80 28-MAY-1954
Standing close to the church and south of it is a later 16th century house of limestone rubble with sandstone dressing. Roughly half H-shaped with the projecting gabled wings on the entrance front facing southeast. There is another wing from the northwest corner at the rear and from this single storey extensions of later date. It has tiled roofs mainly late, simple stone chimney stacks with cement rendered flues, moulded verges with a plain stump on the kneelers. There is a powerful plinth along the north-east side and a continuous cornice at 1st floor level. All the windows have moulded stone mullions and a few early diamond leaded casements remain. The south-east front has a 4-light window to the ground floor in both projecting wings and a 3-light to the 1st floor and attics. In the recessed section there is a 3-light window to both floors, a 2-light window to the semi-basement and at the right hand
side a doorway with a moulded 4-centre arched head. (Late door). The return faces of the wings have a 3-light window to both floors. Similar windows in all other walls. The whole building is in excellent condition and the interior is only little altered. The original staircase with moulded handrail and heavy turned balusters is intact.

{9} Photo dated March 1987;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 17/110 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G05 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100394.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Great Doddington (Photographs). SNN112506.

<4> Salzman L.F.(ed), 1937, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p. 113 (Series). SNN100371.

<5> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, MHLG Wellingborough RD 1970, p. 12 (Report). SNN112993.

<6> Baird, J, 1968, Field investigators comments, F1 JB 01-APR-1968 (Notes). SNN116040.

<7> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, DOE(HHR) Dist. of Wellingborough R.D. Northants. Aug. 1972, p. 24 (Report). SNN112993.

<8> Historic England, Undated, DODDINGTON VICARAGE, GREAT DODDINGTON, BF034423 (Archive). SNN116248.

<9> Photographs of buildings in Great Doddington (Photographs). SNN112506.

Record last edited

May 28 2025 12:34PM