Description

BOMERE HEATH C.P. LEATON SJ 41 NE 6/93 The Old Vicarage - - II

Vicarage, now house. Circa 1859, probably by Samuel Pountney Smith of Shrewsbury. Red brick with grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs. Cruciform plan. In a Gothic Revival style. Two storeys and gable-lit attic. South-east front: chamfered plinth, buttresses with chamfered offsets, string course and parapeted gables with stone copings and shaped kneelers. External brick lateral stack to left with pitched-roofed link to attic and 3 octagonal brick shafts with moulded stone caps and bases, brick ridge stack off-centre to right with 2 diamond shafts, and integral brick and stack to right with shafting and oversailing cap. Triangular dormer to right with stepped 3-light casement. Gabled projection off-centre to right with leaded chamfered rectangular attic window, first-floor canted stone oriel of 1:2:1 lights, and ground-floor paired stone cross windows with trefoil-headed lights; ground-floor one-light cinquefoil-headed window in left-hand return front. Small half-hipped gabled block set back in angle to left with first-floor wooden cross window and one-light ground-floor chamfered- arched window with blind tympanum. One-storey lean-to porch to left consisting of 2 pairs of chamfered segmental-arched 2-light windows with central wooden shafts, and central nail-studded boarded door with chamfered reveals and segmental head. Block set back to right with 3- and 4-light C20 metal casements. Left-hand gable end: treated as central nave with aisles. Central full-height canted stone bay consisting of chamfered offset to first floor with carved shield in octafoil, coved eaves to hipped tiled roof, and 1:2:1 lights with cinquefoil ogee heads. End of lean-to to right with small rectangular attic window and pair of ground-floor chamfered-arched 2-light windows with central wooden shafts, blind tympana and hoodmoulds with carved stops. End of lean-to to left has partly-blocked chamfered-arched doorway with inserted plate-glass window and hoodmould with carved stops. Rear: 3-bay lean-to to right with windows of 2 cinquefoil-headed lights. Gabled wing to left with small chamfered rectangular attic window, first-floor canted stone oriel of 1:2:1 lights and ground-floor paired stone cross windows with cinquefoil- headed lights and hoodmould over both. Interior: aisled drawing room to left. 3-bay arcade to north-west with square piers and moulded arches; one arch to south-east side, to bay adjoining porch. Shafts flanking south-west window. Chamfered cross-beamed ceiling. Neo-Jacobean staircase with closed string, pierced splat balusters, moulded handrail and square newel posts with globe finials and pierced pendants. This is an unusually planned and a well-detailed example of a mid-C19 vicarage. The Vicarage and the neighbouring Church of the Holy Trinity (q.v.), also by Pountney Smith, were to be part of a model village alongside the Shrewsbury-Baschurch road at this point, but no more was built.

Listing NGR: SJ4695718326

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