Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
15447
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/12/1994
Date of Amendment
29/12/1994
Name of Property
Old Vicarage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Bausley with Criggion
Town
Locality
Easting
330105
Northing
315031
Street Side
N
Location
Situated on a curved driveway off Criggion Lane.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House, c 1820-40. The Rev J H (Cardinal) Newman is said to have written the hymn 'Praise to the Angels in the Height' whilst staying at the vicarage.
Exterior
Rendered and lined with hipped slate roof. Two storeys, two wide bays with end stacks and wide boxed eaves returned as wings to rear. Narrow slightly recessed central bay. Central margin-glazed door within a brick rendered brick porch with parapet. 20-paned sashes to ground floor, 16-paned above. To rear, a canted two-storey bay window on west side. Small extension on right gable is built over the substructure of an earlier building on the site, shown on an estate map of 1721.
To the E, two privies placed over a stream, one probably C18, without door or original double seat, the other C19, also without furnishings.
Interior
The stair in the entrance hall has wreathed handrail and bracketed treads. The main reception room has reeded cornice and an incised fretted marble fireplace.
Reason for designation
An unspoilt example of an elegant Regency style country vicarage.
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