Description

CHURCH STREET
TQ 7552 LOOSE
(East Side)
6/170 The Old Vicarage
25.7.52
GV
II
Formerly vicarage, now house. 1657, with C18 and early C19 additions.
Main range timber framed, clad with channelled render to first floor.
part painted brick part render to ground floor. Plain tile roof.
Symmetrical lobby entry plan, built at right-angles to street. 2 storeys
and attics on stone plinth. Central multiple brick ridge stack. 2
scarcely jettied gabled eaves dormers spanning all but central section of
front elevation, each with small 2-light leaded casement. Irregular
fenestration of one 3-light leaded casement below each dormer. Central
rendered porch with gable rising to eaves of main range, and with
blocked doorway. Boarded door towards rear of left gable. C18
addition to rear to left; painted brick on stone plinth, with plat band,
moulded wooden eaves cornice and hipped plain-tile roof. One 18-pane
first-floor sash to left side (to road) and 2 horizontally-sliding
sashes to ground floor. Early C19 addition infilling re-entrant angle
to right; painted brick on stone plinth, with hipped slate roof. Two
12-pane sashes to right side with iron balconettes. Venetian shutters
to ground floor windows. Doorway with moulded architrave in shallow
rendered porch, towards junction with main range. Interior not
inspected. Dated 1657 in parish records (R. Thornburgh; Exploring
Loose Village, 1978).

Listing NGR: TQ7568752104

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542450

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)