Description

TL 56 SW STOW-CUM-QUY MAIN STREET
(East side)

219/8/163 No 41
The Vicarage
22.8.94

GV II*

Vicarage. 1887. Architect W. White (1825-1900). Red brick with rubbed and moulded brick dressings, tile hung gables, red plain tile roofs with deep eaves and plain wooden barge boards. Two storeys with attics and cellar. Rectangular gabled plan with service rooms and yard to north and east. Brick plinth. Main entrance facing north with two-centred chamfer-moulded-arched
doorway, panelled half -glazed door with side lights. West facade; attic gable to right hand and small gable to left hand with four-light casement windows, and between a small triangular attic window. T o left hand at ground and first floors three-light casement windows with transomes in chamfer-moulded segmental brick arches. Ground floor bay window to right hand with tiled roof hipped to canted bay with transomed casements.
INTERIOR details includes large wooden dog-leg staircase with chamfered square balusters and square newels with moulded caps, lit by Gothic stained glass window, exposed chamfered floor joists, fielded pine boarding to service doors and walls, main rooms with four-panelled doors. Door and window furniture specially designed. Original wooden fire surrounds survive throughout with tiled or brick inner faces. Orginal plaster coving.
Plans and Specification Diocesan Office, Ely. This is an extremely fine and well preserved example of the very late architectural style of William White, one of the most prominent Victorian architects of his day.

The previous list entry read:

TL 56 SW STOW-CUM-QUY MAIN STREET
(East Side)
8/163 The Vicarage

II

Vicarage, 1887. Architect W. White (1825-1900). Red brick with
rubbed and moulded brick dressings, tile hung gables, red plain
tile roofs with deep eaves and plain wooden barge boards. Two
storeys with attics and cellar. Rectangular gabled plan with
service rooms and yard to north and east. Main entrance facing
north with two-centred chamfer-moulded-arched doorway, panelled
half-glazed door with side lights. West facade; attic gable to
right hand and small gable to left hand with four-light casement
windows, and between a small triangular attic window. To left
hand at ground and first floors three-light casement windows
with transomes in chamfer-moulded segmental brick arches.
Ground floor bay window to right hand with tiled roof hipped to
canted bay with transomed casements. Brick plinth. Interior
details include staircases with turned balusters lit by Gothic
stained glass window, exposed chamfered floor joists, fielded
pine boarding to service doors and walls, main rooms with
four-panelled doors. Door and window furniture specially
designed.
Plans and Specification Diocesan Office, Ely.

Listing NGR: TL5206260478

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550659

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings