The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE, 1, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119395
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, 1, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119395
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, 1, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, 1, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sydling St. Nicholas
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 63163 99386
Details
SY 6399 SYDLING ST NICHOLAS HIGH STREET,(west side) 12/180 No. 1 (The Old Vicarage) 26.1.56 GV II*
Attached former Vicarage, now private house. Dated 1640 R.T. V (for Ralph Taylor, Vicar) on panel over west doorway. Restored in 1778. Rubble-stone knapped flint and chalk-block walls. Slate roofs with end gables, and 2 front (east) gables with C19 ornamental barge-boards. Stacks at left hand eaves and right hand gable. 2½ storeys. 5 windows, irregular fenestration, hollow- chamfered stone mullions with separate labels over, single light stone-framed windows in gables with wood and iron casements with lead lights. Sashes at right hand end, with glazing-bars. Between the 2 front gables is C20 infill to bring the front flush. Door at left ground is C20 with top half glazed. South gable end has present front door, 4-panelled, C19. Wooden trelliswork porch. Rear (west) wall has 4 2-light stone mullion windows, unusually wide openings, each filled by a wooden case- ment with glazing-bars. Central doorway with rendered jambs, and multi-panel glass door.
(RCHMS Dorset I, p233(5))
Listing NGR: SY6316399386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105506
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 233
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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