Description

VICARAGE LANE 1. 5166 Rectory and St Mary's Lodge (formerly listed as the Vicarage) SD 6178 NW 5/145 12.2.62 GV II

2. 1783 and circa 1830, with fragmentary early wing. Three storeys. Rubble. Slate roof. Gable chimneys. Symmetrical five bay composition, the outer bays more widely spaced than the inner. Quoins. Attic sill band. Projecting eaves cornice, returned some distance on gable ends to create open pediment. Windows with plain stone surrounds, sashed with all glazing bars. Doorway with deep reveal, wooden surround and hood on moulded consoles. Door of six raised and fielded panels. At back large semicircular bow around which cornice is continued, with curved windows and sashes as at front. Tall staircase window. Interior. Ground floor room with bow has coved enriched cornice and stone Doric fireplace. Panelled shutters to windows. Four flight closed string dogleg stair with turned balusters and heavily moulded ramped hand rail. The newels formed by coupled columns. "St Mary's Lodge" recently formed out of wing ascribed to C17 (RCHM), which was much reduced in size later C19. Two storeys. Rubble. Slate roof. One chimney. Boxed sashes. Modern doorway. (Dated in guidebook to St Mary's Church).

Listing NGR: SD6107678895

External Links

• Wikidata Q26605063

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings