Description
Originally known as the Vicarage, its association with the former Prebendal estate is uncertain. It is of two storeys with attics and has walls mainly of brick, with areas of flint and rubble, and tiled roofs. Different wall thicknesses, room-heights and standards of construction and decoration separate the house into two parts. By its style, the north west bay is good quality domestic architecture of c. 1700; the remaining two-thirds of the building appear to be inferior work of the first half of the 19th century.
The inconsistency cannot be positively explained. The north west bay may be the surviving wing of a substantial house, the rest of which has perished, or it may have been built as a country retreat of only two rooms for occasional use by a rich man who generally lived elsewhere.
The north east front of the earlier bay has in each storey a bow window of Palladian form; above is a coved eaves cornice. The north west elevation, of flint with brick quoins, has a Palladian window on the first floor to light the staircase. The south west elevation is of squared rubble with flint and brick banding; above the first floor it is rendered. In the 19th century part of the house the walls are wholly of brick.
Inside, the study has original joinery of good quality, including a chimneypiece with an eared and enriched surround and a frieze with foliate scrollwork. The doorcase has an eared architrave and a pulvinated entablature. The stairs have close strings and column-shaped balustrades. The room over the study has a moulded cornice and dado, and a chimneypiece with a moulded and enriched cornice, consoles flanking a rococo frieze and an eared surround with egg-and-dart enrichment. The south east rooms have no notable features .