Vicarage
VICARAGE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232604
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- VICARAGE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232604
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICARAGE, CHURCH LANE
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:
- VICARAGE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Test Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Romsey
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 35024 21277
Details
ROMSEY CHURCH LANE 1. VICARAGE SU3421 and SU3521 5/250
II GV
Vicarage. Dated AD1855 on upper arch moulding over entrance porch. Benjamin Ferrey, architect for the restoration of the Abbey Church (qv), in a C13 Gothic revival style. Squared rubble in courses, ashlar quoins and details, slate roofs, four stone stacks with red terracotta pots, offset plinth with chamfered capping. Two storeys and attic. A rectangular block with a short gabled cross wing on left of asymmetrical entrance front. Recessed front entrance porch under a moulded pointed arch inscribed NISI DOMINUS BRUSTRA on lower moulding. Above arch, a horizontal drip mould with eaved side drops encloses in the spandrels a pair of circular trefoiled frames to recessed panels carved with monograms. Moulded inner doorway with similar pointed arch, four panel door with upper panels glazed. Walls of porch lined with white ceramic tiles. To left of porch a tall 2-light window to stairwell: single transom and single quatrefoil plate tracery, diamond pane leadlight glazing. To right of porch a triplet of lancets with trefoil heads. On first floor a pair of lancets above porch and a similar pair to right, all with Caernarvon arch heads. Between pairs of lancets a square framed panel with quatrefoil enclosing a shield of arms painted red and gold. Above, a dormer gablet with a stepped triplet of lancets with trefoil heads. Gable end wall of wing to left has a moulded first floor string course and a central stack projecting on corbels above a pair of lancets to ground floor, and a single lancet to either side on first floor. The south front has a cross gable to left crowned by a stack projecting on corbels above a sash to the attic and a coped gabled dormer to right with a pair of lancets. On the ground floor a triplet of lancets with trefoiled heads to left and right. A similar triplet of lancets to first floor on right and a stepped triplet with central mullion under a pointed arch hoodmould with eaved side drops. The garden front has a projecting bay to right broached at top to a canted bay window on first floor. Doorway with pointed arch in bay with glazed 4 panel door. A pair of lancets to front of bay window with single lancet side lights. To left, an irregular pattern of lancets with trefoil or Caernarvon arched heads on both floors. A cross gable to left with a circular framed cinquefoil light to attic. Single storey gabled service extensions on north side. Interior not inspected. Important for group value with Romsey Abbey Church (qv) and the Primary School (qv).
Listing NGR: SU3502621280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407972
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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