Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 SILVER STREET
1011-1/6/124 (North East side)
06/01/83 No.23
The Old Vicarage
(Formerly Listed as:
SILVER STREET
The Vicarage)

GV II

Vicarage, in use as private house. c1780s with c1830s
addition. Local grey and brown slatestone rubble with granite
dressings; natural slate roof of small slates, gabled at ends;
end stacks with rendered shafts with cornices.
Plan: sited on rising ground off the NE side of Silver Street,
SE garden elevation with entrance on NW side. Double-depth
plan, 2 rooms wide with basement kitchen. Secondary block
added at NW end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement to main block. Granite quoins
and dressings to the windows; granite plinth at ground-floor
level. Eaves board. Symmetrical 3-bay entrance elevation with
a short flight of steps up to narrow central round-headed
doorway. Recessed 2-leaf front door, each leaf with 3 panels,
upper panels fielded; deep fanlight with 3-pane overlight
below fanlight with spoke glazing bars. Ground-floor window
right probably original 16-pane sash, 12-pane sash above front
door. Ground-floor window left and 2 outer first-floor windows
probably replacement 12-pane sashes with horns. Below the
granite plinth 2 basement windows with granite dressings.
Garden elevation, visible from various points in
Buckfastleigh, is also 3-bays with a parapet with lead coping
and platbands below parapet and at first and ground-floor
levels. 3 ground-floor 12-pane sashes; outer first-floor
windows horned replacements, central first-floor window 8-pane
horned replacement sash. 3 basement windows: the left-hand one
has lost its glazing, the right-hand window is glazed with a
2-light casement, the centre window, partly concealed behind a
late C19 early C20 conservatory, built against the front is an
unglazed iron-framed casement. Glazed lean-to conservatory on
front in centre.
To the right, a lower-roofed one-bay block with lean-to roof
behind a parapet above moulded string is glazed with 6 over
3-pane sashes with brick arches. The left return is stuccoed
and blocked out with an exceptionally tall, round-headed stair
light, 4 panes wide and 16 panes high with Gothick glazing
bars in the head. The right return of the main block has a
pretty roundel window in the gable with a granite architrave,
with geometric glazing bars with a square of small panes
around a roundel. Below, the return of the one-bay NW addition
has a lean-to roof with a plank doorway with modest Gothick
panelling flanked by 2-light casements, 6 panes per light.
2-light first-floor Gothick window, with 3 panes per light and
arched glazing bars in the head.
INTERIOR: attractive interior, showing some evidence for
re-partitioning on the ground floor in the early C19. Reeded
doorcases; panelled doors; deep skirtings. C19 marble
chimneypieces in principal ground-floor rooms and plainer ones
upstairs. Stick baluster stair with ramped handrail extends to
attic which has tie beam and queen-post roof, fixed with pegs,
to accommodate unusually wide span and servants' rooms in the
attic. Cellar preserves re-used early C18 two-panel door and
curious timber which may be a reused arched brace from a roof.

Listing NGR: SX7355866351

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504141

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