THE VICARAGE

THE VICARAGE, CHURCH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123916
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: THE VICARAGE
Statutory Address:: THE VICARAGE, CHURCH GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123916
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: THE VICARAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE VICARAGE, CHURCH GREEN

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE VICARAGE, CHURCH GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Matching
National Grid Reference:: TL 52493 11994

Details

TL 51 SW MATCHING CHURCH GREEN 3/55 The Vicarage

GV II

vicarage of lobby entrance form, c.1600 extended in C18 and C19. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned approximately NE-SW, aspect SE, with axial chimney stack in second bay from SW, forming a lobby entrance. Service wing to NW of NE bay, probably contemporary. Stair tower to NW of chimney stack, and C18 gabled extension between it and service wing. External chimney stacks at NW and NE. 2 storey flat-roofed extension at NE end, C20. Late Cl9 crosswing at SW end with central chimney stack, extending NE to meet stair tower. 2 storeys. Gothick door under shallow hood with mixed Gothick and classical ornament, C19. 4 casement windows, C19, of which 3 have Gothick tracery. On first floor, 4 similar windows, all with Gothick tracery. Hipped roof, wooden parapet. Late C19 crosswing has one tripartite sash window at each floor, and a band of polychrome brickwork following the arch of the ground floor window. C19 grouped diagonal shafts on axial and NE stacks. Interior fully plastered, and beams boxed in. C18 stair with pine rail and 3 slender turned balusters to each tread, some missing or damaged. Early C19 cast iron grates in 2 upper rooms, each side of axial stack. Edge halved and bridled scarf in SE wallplate. Roof of clasped purlin construction, with curved wind bracing, originally hipped at SW end, altered to a hip at NE end. Partitions of original "wattle and daub present in roof. A terrier of 1610 describes the vicarage as 'A Dwelling House having a Hall, a Parlour and Entry floor'd with Board, also a kitchen, with four other little rooms, four Chambers, a Study and two pairs of Stairs' (Newcourt, II, 410). The will of Nehemiah Holmes, vicar from 1662 to 1685, bequeathes long lists of domestic articles in 'the Chamber over the Parlour', 'the hall chamber', the chamber over the dayry' and 'the old study' (Essex Record Office D/ABW 71/236). The first 3 can be identified as the upper SW room of the present house, the next room to the NE and the upper room of the NW service wing respectively. Mullman wrote in 1771 'The vicarage has been almost entirely new-built by the present incumbent (p.102), but this must be simply his way of describing superficial alterations, for structurally the present building is certainly much older. A photograph dated 1861 in the possession of the vicar shows the house from the west before the present Victorian wing was added.

Listing NGR: TL5249311994

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Legacy System number:: 118145
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Muilman, , A History of Essex by a Gentleman, (1771)
Newcourt, R, Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londiniensi, (1710), 410

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.