The Vicarage England, UK

Listed Building Description

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PULESWORTH HIGH STREET SK20SE (South side) 5/88 The Vicarage 25/03/68

Vicarage. Rebuilt about 1870 but with some reused elements from a C16 manor house, on the site of the Abbess's lodgings. English bond brick and timber-framing with rendered infill, possibly over brick, with brick plinth. Old plain-tile roofs; stone external stacks with brick shafts and brick ridge stacks. Irregular E-plan. One storey, one storey and attic, and 2 storeys; 5-window range. Wide 2-storey porch range has gable with herringbone framing jettied on brackets. Ribbed Tudor-arched door. 4-light casement above has horizontal glazing bar and coved jetty. Gabled range to left has wood mullioned windows of 4 lights to ground floor and 3 lights above. Right range has 4-light leaded wood nullioned staircase window with 2 transoms. Wings have ground floors of brick, with moulded brick mullioned windows and sill courses. Large one-storey cross-wing to left has separate roof and blue brick diapering. Cross windows in angles. Buttresses to front. Timber-framed gable has 5-light leaded wood mullioned window. Right return side has 4-light window and lateral stack with offsets. Brick shafts throughout have pilasters and cornices of oversailing courses. Right wing has two 3-light windows. Jettied first floor has 5-light wood mullioned window. Left return side has lateral stack. Irregular rear, to garden, is largely of brick. Right range, set far back, has very large 5-light brick mullioned window with 2 transoms. Interior: left wing has a partly C15/C16 three-bay arched -brace roof, a large Elizabethan stone fireplace with Tudor arch and ornamented spandrels, and some C17. panelling. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p373; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, p186)

Listing NGR: SK2632202405