Description

SY 2494 COLYTON VICARAGE STREET
24/205 COLYTON

8.5.67 The Vicarage and Brerewood
House
GV
II

Vicarage and adjoining house. Early C16, much restored and with circa early C20
additions at rear (west). Surviving parts of a house built in 1520 by Canon
Brerewood (Dr Thomas Brerewood) Chancellor to Bishop Veysey and referred to by
Leland as "a fair House". Stone rubble with freestone dressings. Slate roof gabled
and hipped. Two storeys. Irregular plan. The Vicarage to left (south-west)
heavily restored and has porch with stepped gable and moulded four centred arch, it
is a two storey two window range with large late C19 moulded wood mullion windows,
the ground floor with dripmoulds. The north-east end (Brerewood House) is L-shaped
with hipped roof wing and large gabled wing with stepped moulded parapet and moulded
stone mullion window with four four-centred arch lights and dripmould, above a
moulded four-centred arch doorway with carved arms of Bishop Veysey above. Rebuilt
brick end chimney stacks. Red brick early C20 wing at rear.

Listing NGR: SY2453194102

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26390687

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)