The Old Vicarage With Attached Wall And Gateway On West Side Of Forecourt

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

WORTLEY HOWBROOK LANE SK39NW (north side, off)

4/123 The Old Vicarage with attached wall and gateway on west side of forecourt - II Vicarage. Dated 1880. Patron the Earl of Wharncliffe. Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone, stone slate roof. In Jacobean Revival style. 2 storeys, 3 x 2 gabled bays with curtain wall enclosing single-storey outbuilding in yard on left return.

Throughout, there are ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights and iron casements; dripmoulds; shaped gables with plaques; moulded copings and ball finials. Entrance fronti left bay set back with single-storey porch in angle. Porch has moulded door surround with keyed round arch and pediment with finialled parapet. Cross-window above porch, 2-light windows on each floor to left with stair window beyond having 3 transoms, and keystone linked to lst-floor dripmould on right. Gable copings sweep down with catslide roof to left and continue over gable of linked outbuilding. Central bay has door to left of 2-light window, double-transomed 4-light window over. Right bay has 3-light mullioned and transomed window to each floor. Tall corniced ashlar stacks on roof slope to left of bay 1. Curved wall projecting to right of bay 1 has end piers and central pedimented doorway in style of porch. Garden front on right return: each bay has a 2-storey canted-bay window with 1 : 4 : 1 lights on each floor; parapet to each bay with pediments and ball finials. Gables have date numerals in 2 plaques.

Central ridge stack with cornice.

Listing NGR: SK3089199217

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0669 IOE Records taken by Paul Eggleston; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Paul Eggleston. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project