Vicarsfield Rectory

Farmyard complex, c.1800, including:(i) Detached five-bay two-storey outbuilding. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and no rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls over random rubble limestone construction. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, concealed dressings, and fixed-pane timber windows having lattice glazing with louvered panel fittings to first floor (most to first floor now boarded-up). Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings, and timber boarded half-door. Set back from road in grounds shared with Vicarsfield Rectory about a gravel courtyard.(ii) Detached two-bay two-storey coach house with pair of elliptical-headed carriageways to ground floor. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and remains of iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble limestone construction. Pair of elliptical-headed carriageways to ground floor with concealed dressings, and timber boarded double doors. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, concealed dressings, and louvered panel fittings.(iii) Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls over random rubble limestone construction. Square-headed window openings with no sills, concealed dressings, and louvered panel fittings. Square-headed door openings with timber lintels, and remains of timber doors.

A collection of modest-scale outbuilding ranges forming a self-contained farmyard complex contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Vicarsfield Rectory estate. Retaining the original composition attributes together with much of the historic fabric each range presents an early aspect, thereby making a positive impression on the character of the site.