Description

PAIGNTON

SX86SE BLAGDON ROAD, Collaton St Mary
1947-1/2/175 (North East side)
The Old Vicarage

GV II

Rectory, now in use as house and offices. 1864, to the designs
of Rowell of Newton Abbot for the Reverend Hogg. Free Gothic
style.
MATERIALS: Local red snecked breccia with Bathstone dressings;
slate roof; stacks with stone shafts with freestone caps.
PLAN: Sited immediately east of and contemporary with the
parish church of St Mary (qv). Deep rectangular plan, entrance
elevation faces east, garden elevation to south, service rooms
to west, staircase opens off hall on north side.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, with 2
gables to the front at either end (left-hand bay slightly set
back), with scalloped bargeboards. Central entrance bay with a
steep pyramidal roof and diagonal buttress with coped set-offs
to the left. Stone-framed window and door openings have
relieving arches or voussoirs; windows are glazed with
probably original plate-glass 2-pane sashes. Double chamfered
front doorway with a cranked arch. Original 6-panel front door
with crank arched panels above the middle rail; deep
crank-arched overlight.
The left-hand bay has a shallow projecting stack with coped
set-offs. 2-light ground floor window right with chamfered
stopped lintels, similar first floor window above with
shouldered lights; 2-light window above door with 2-centred
arched lights.
3-bay garden elevation, with a gabled projection in the
centre. Two 2-pane sashes to the left, 3 shoulder-headed
arched windows to the projection; single-storey canted bay to
the right with high transomed windows and timber corbel course
to support guttering, a design repeated on the contemporary
parish church. 2-light first-floor windows, the left-hand with
a cranked head in a gabled dormer; slit window in central
gable. The west end has 2 gables to the west and is in the
same style with similar windows including a first floor stair
window to the service stair.
North elevation consists of 3 staggered gabled blocks, similar
glazing to other elevations except the left-hand stair
projection has a fine 2-light stair window with trefoil-headed
lights and a trefoil below the sill. Service door into
right-hand block.
INTERIOR: Not seen in detail on survey but known to retain
original chimney-pieces, joinery and stair.
Part of an 1860s group comprising church, rectory and school,
all promoted and partly funded by the Reverend Hogg to
commemorate his daughter. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX8646260156

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502674

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)