THE OLD VICARAGE

THE OLD VICARAGE, SNAITH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1083325
Date first listed:: 16-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: THE OLD VICARAGE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD VICARAGE, SNAITH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1083325
Date first listed:: 16-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: THE OLD VICARAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD VICARAGE, SNAITH ROAD

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD VICARAGE, SNAITH ROAD

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District:: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Snaith and Cowick
National Grid Reference:: SE 66067 21560

Details

SE 62 SE 3/89

SNAITH AND COWICK SNAITH ROAD(south side)East Cowick The Old Vicarage

GII Vicarage,now offices.1853-54 by William Butterfield for Willim Henry Dawnay,seventh Viscount Downe.Built by Charles Ward of Lincoln.C20 entrance porch and alterations.Red brick in English bond.Welsh slate roof.Rectangular on plan:double-depth,with two-room central entrance-hall north front and two-room principal south garden front.South front:two storeys,three irregular bays,with projecting full-height gabled bay to left and projecting gabled wing to right.Tall central six-pane square-headed stair window with C20 glazing.Wing to right has ground-floor canted baywindow with hollow-chamfered timber mullions,three-light sash to front,and single-light sashes with glazing bars to sides beneath projecting pointed arches supporting hipped roof;pointed three-light first-floor window with brick header arch and C20 glazing.Left bay has square ground-floor bay window with central glazed door flanked by twelve-pane sashes in architraves beneath timber lintel,six-pane sashes to side,moulded wooden cornice and hipped roof;three-light first-floor window with C20 glazing in original opening beneath soldier arch.Rainwater head to centre bears Downe monogram and coronet.Steeply pitched roof, half-hipped to right wing.Buttressed and corniced end stack to left with tumbled-in brick to offsets,similar axial stack to right wing.Contemporary single-storey outhouses adjoin to left.North front:unsympathetic C20 timber porch and lobby extension over original segmental-pointed entrance with part-glazed six-panelled door in chamfered surround to right,a pair of narrow sashes with glazing bars beneath pointed relieving arch,two C20 inserted windows.First floor:pointed three-light window to left with C20 glazing,four sashes with glazing bars to right beneath raised eaves.Hipped roof to left cross wing,axial stack to right.Single-storey and attic coach-house adjoins to right with buttress to north-west corner,plate-glass windows inserted in former entrance to north gable end,with two-fold pointed loft door above,pair of board doors to right return;steeply-pitched roof Interior,altered in C20,retains original staircase with tall shafted balustrade;moulded dado rail to entrance hall;panelled doors.Contemporary with neighbouring church andschool(qv),and with similar groups at nearby Hensall (North Yorkshire) and Pollington (qv).P Thompson,William Butterfield,1971.J Killeen,A Short History of Cowick Hall 1967,p 27-29. R Dixon and S Muthesius,Victorian Architecture,1978,p49 and p208.Photographs in NMR.

Listing NGR: SE6606721560

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Legacy System number:: 164950
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dixon, R, Muthesius, S, Victorian Architecture, (1978), 49 and 208
Killeen, J , A Short History of Cowick Hall, (1967), 27-29
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.