St Mary's Side and Vicarage (EHER 37728)

Mid 16th century and earlier timber-framed house.

The Old Vicarage beside St Mary's Church is a purpose-built 16th century priests house, probably on the site of an earlier predecessor. <1> See: <2> NRHE data transfer: Vicarage (NAT). <3> Vicarage and St. Mary's side. Vicarage and flat of the mid 16th century and earlier and substantially timber-framed and plastered with peg tile roofs. (RCHM 33). Grade II. <4> The Vicarage west of the church, is of two storeys with attics. It was built in the second half of the 16th century on an L-shaped plan, with the wings extending towards the north and west, and with another small wing on the south side of the west wing. In the angle between the main wings are modern additions. At the south end of the east. front the timber-framing is exposed. Inside the building, on the ground floor, in the south-east room are original moulded ceiling-beams with a moulded wall-plate, and a door made up of panelling of about 1600. In another room is a cambered and stop-chamfered ceiling-beam, partly cut away, and supported by large curved braces; there is also a moulded wall-plate. On the first floor are original moulded ceiling-beams, and a panelled cupboard door of about 1600. In the roof is a short piece of moulded timber, re-used. <5>