Number 2, Vicar Road, Darfield, is set in the middle of the village's Conservation Area. It was built about 1750 and is a good example of a small domestic structure, examples of which are becoming relatively rare in South Yorkshire. During its life it has undergone many changes. Originally rendered, its stonework was exposed in Victorian times and was then re-rendered. From sometime in the 19th. century it was used as a corner shop, this use continuing until a few years ago. It has been described as, "...the best surviving of the handful of 18th. century buildings in the village".
Evidence from the reworked timber in the building - beams, lintels and roof supports - suggest that an earlier timber framed structure stood on the site, that was demolished to make way for the new yeoman's stone building with salvage of material from the earlier structure.
Cast iron fireplaces both Georgian and Victorian are featured in three of the rooms, together with an open fireplace with a fire back that could have been a marriage stone.
A remaining bow window is original to the building and has been carefully restored.
Dry cellars are unfortunately not able to be opened to visitors. These were tanked in the 1970's but over many years were used to hold the ales that were sold in the shop. These were used by the local A.R.P. during the war years and it has been suggested that one of the cellars was used to hold coffins overnight prior to their internment in the nearby churchyard.
Volunteers have rescued and recreated in a domestic scene at the rear of the building, a black leaded Yorkshire Range, a copper with its cast fire door, a salt glazed sink , mangle etc. There is also here , the increasing collection of larger farming implements that have been collected locally.