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

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