Description

CHRISTOW CHRISTOW SX 88 NW 2/98 The Old Vicarage including garden walls and gate piers GV II Vicarage. Circa mid C19. Roughcast,probably originally stuccoed;hipped slate roof; 2 stacks with brick shafts. Plan: Rectangular on plan, double depth with 2 principal rooms to the front, one on either side of an entrance hall with a dog-leg stair behind the entrance hall. C20 single-storey rear lean-to with a corrugated asbestos roof. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay east front with deep eaves and eaves brackets central Tuscan porch with half-glazed front door with glazing bars, margin glazing and a rectangular fanlight with glazing bars. 16-pane timber sashes to the ground floor, 3 first floor 12-pane sashes. The rear elevation has a round-headed stair window with glazing bars. The north elevation has a shallow 2-storey C20 lean-to and one C20 window, the south elevation has 2 first floor and 2 ground floor 12-pane sashes and a C20 single-storey bay window to the right with 2-pane sashes. Interior: Not fully inspected but C19 joinery survives including a stick baluster stair and doors and there is at least one marble C19 chimneypiece. Tall stone rubble garden walls to the south of the house with rectangular gate piers are included in the listing. The vicarage is sited immediately west of the church : group value with the church and Newhouse and Barne End (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SX8356784999

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)