Description

EYE

TM1473 CHURCH STREET
585-1/7/79 (East side)
15/06/51 The Old Vicarage and The Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
(North side)
The Vicarage)

II

Vicarage, now private houses. Mid C16 north-south wing with
south front added 1723 for Rev.John Burgate, refenestrated
1733. Interior reordered 1899 and alterations made. Plastered
and colourwashed timber frame, the plaster raised in panels to
south front. Machine tile roof to facade, otherwise pantiles.
EXTERIOR: south front of 2 storeys in 6-window range. Mid C19
6-panelled and fielded door in centre beneath hood mould on
label stops. Three 2-light timber and metal mid C19 casements
to left, 4 to right of doorway. 6 similar first-floor
casements, that to centre of 3 lights. Gabled roof. 2 rebuilt
ridge stacks. West return with bay window added 1899. East
front presents 4 gables of varying heights and pitch, that to
left belonging to 1723 facade. Brick plinths. Scattered
fenestration of C19 casements.
North gable (The Cottage) has brick to ground floor on east
side, jettied to north front, the jetty bressumer on corner
brackets. Rebuilt ridge stack to second gable from north. Rear
of front wing with two 6/6 unhorned sashes, fenestration
otherwise of C19 casements.
INTERIOR: principal door leads to hall, opened through both
floors in 1899 and gallery inserted at first-floor level to
north with a turned timber balustrade. Single-flight staircase
to left in narrow well. Boxed bridging beams. Rear wing with
exposed posts to timber frame, jowled principal studs and
arched braces to tie beams. Jettied north element with
queen-post roof, the posts supported by arched braces rising
from tie beams.
(Paine C: The History of Eye: Diss: 1993-: 50).

Listing NGR: TM1491273822

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26602905

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings