(Grade II listed in 1956)
(Grade II listed in 1956)
According to the Dorset trade directory for 1903, this was then the doctor's house, and it served as such for many years, which is no doubt why the smaller building next door was his surgery until very recent times.
Not immediately obvious to passers-by is the 14th century blanked-off window in the flank wall adjoining the Manor House, a feature which seems to be at odds with the listing description of the house as early 19th century ~ but it is not unknown for houses to have been re-fronted at that period to provide a fashionable facade without the expense of a total rebuild.
The rendering around some of the windows has been broken open, it is said, to establish whether a case can be made for an application for listed building approval to remove all the cement rendering and restore it to the original stone frontage.
It carries the name of "Vicarage" because it was occupied by the village vicars after the last resident doctor left. The last resident vicar to live here was the Revd Canon Ball, formerly chaplain to HM Prison, Dartmoor, who moved to the new vicarage in 1964, since when the old Vicarage has been a private house.