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SE 44 SE
453-/8/10001

TADCASTER WEST
CHAPEL STREET (north east side)
The Old Vicarage

GV
II *

Marked on O.S.map as British Legion Club. Priests house or vicarage, now disused. Late C13 rebuilt c1500, with C18, C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and breeze block and brick infill. Slate roof with a single raised coped gable and a single stone stack. Quoins. Two storey.

North-east front has an off-centre blocked chamfered doorway with to the left a single blocked window. To the right a further blocked doorway and window and beyond the blocked scar of a C19 addition. Above a small off-centre window, with two blocked windows to the left, and above a chamfered eaves band. To the right three blocked windows. North west front has a projecting external stack, and a restored round headed chamfered doorway with hood mould, and a blocked window above, plus set back to the right a single C19 chamfered cross mullion window to each floor. Southwest front has a projecting gabled wing to the left. The side wall has a tall chamfered window opening. To the right a pair of blocked doorways. And above three irregularly spaced chamfered window openings all blocked. South-east gable wall has a blocked doorway and upper doorway plus a brick gable.

Interior has three exposed stud partition walls on the first floor in the former hall range. The roof to this section has two king post trusses with triple curved braces partly infilled. The roof also retains some arch braces over the former hall. The cross wing has a single truss with arch braces a saddle and king post.

Listing NGR: SE4853843383

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Old Vicarage at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17542087

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)