The Old Rectory and Coach-house Adjoining to East

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PATRINGTON NICHOLSON'S LANE TA 22 SE (south side, off) Winestead 6/47 The Old Rectory and coach-house adjoining to 4-3-52 east (formerly listed 16-12-66 seperately) GV II

Rectory and adjoining coach-house. House: C17 origins, alterations of 1728 for Christopher Hildyard, alterations and north-west drawing room wing of 1775 for Francis Drake, alterations and addition to rear of c1825, C19 bay windows. C20 alterations for Col R A Alec-Smith include interior alterations and repositioning entrance and windows to create symmetrical front in 1948, addition of north-east kitchen wing in 1954-5. Coach-house of 1804 for Rev William Hildyard. House: main range in red brick (in English bond to gable ends); brown brick to north-west wing. Red brick to coach-house. Pantile roofs throughout. House approximately U-shaped on plan: 3-room south front with wide central hall containing staircase to left and inserted central entrance (entrance formerly to left of centre), drawing-room wing to rear left; rear outshuts and C20 kitchen wing to rear right, adjoining L-shaped coach-house. Small walled courtyards to rear. House: 2 storeys with attic, 5 bays; symmetrical, with projecting full- height square outer bays with canted bay windows. Entrance has stone step with moulded nosing to recessed half-glazed fielded-panel door in shouldered architrave with stepped key bearing crest in oval medallion, pulvinated frieze and dentilled pediment. Datestone over door inscribed 1728. 3 central bays have 12-pane flush sashes (those to first floor slightly shorter) with sills and rubbed-brick flat arches with raised ashlar keystones inscribed with Alec-Smith monogram and dated 1948. Flat-roofed full-height bay windows have 12-pane sashes to front, 8-pane sashes to sides, sills, moulded wooden cornices. Dentilled brick eaves cornice. Tumbled-in brick to raised gables. Axial and end stacks. Left return: similar ground-floor sash and unequal 9-pane attic sash to front range, 2- bay wing has slightly-recessed 12-pane sashes with sills and stucco flat arches incised in imitation of rubbed brick, stepped eaves, tumbled-in brick to raised gables with shaped stone kneelers. Coach-house set back to right: single-storey with attic, 3 bays. Central carriage entrance with double board doors flanked by single door to left, 8-pane sliding sash and board door beneath 3-pane overlight to right. All openings with segmental arches, doors with wrought-iron strap hinges. Tumbled-in brick to raised right gable. Right return has 12-pane ground-floor sash, first-floor board door and small triangular opening to gable with projecting shelf; pair of stable doors to later single-storey rear wing. Interior. House retains original 1775 dentilled cornice to drawing room, and staircase of 1728 (perhaps re- set), with exposed tread-ends, ramped corniced hand-rail, column newels and alternating column-on-vase and twist-on-vase balusters with square knops. Many other features such as panelling, doors and chimney-pieces were brought from Hull and Winestead Red Hall in the 1940s and 1950s. Among the most notable are the early C18 library 2-fold doors in architraves from Winestead Red Hall, and fitted bookshelves, ornate chimney-piece, overmantel and dentilled cornice from Etherington Buildings, Hull; dentilled chimney-piece in entrance hall from Etherington Buildings; the drawing room carved doors and architraves, chimney-piece and overmantel from 37 High Street, Hull; the elaborate west bedroom chimney-piece (from 20 High Street, Hull) and door architraves with open pediments and urns in the same room; ornate chimney- pieces to nursery and east bedroom. Interior of coach-house: room to right contains re-set C18 stone chimney-piece with carved overmantel and cornice, half-domed alcove with keyed archivolt, fluted pilasters and dentilled cornice. In 1616 the rectory, containing hall and chamber, was decayed; in 1672 there were 5 hearths. Andrew Marvell, the poet, was born in Winestead Rectory in 1620-21, but it is uncertain whether parts of this building are incorporated in the present house, though plan and wall thicknesses clearly suggest its C17 origins. R A Alec-Smith, "Winestead Rectory", c1965, (ms book in the house); R A Alec-Smith, "Winestead", Transactions of the Georgian Society for East Yorkshire, vol 1, pt III, 1939-46, 44-5; J Cornforth, Country Life, 14 January 1965; J Cornforth, The Inspiration of the Past: Country House taste in the Twentieth Century, 1985, 139-42.

Listing NGR: TA2992024155

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Sources

Books and journals
Smith, A R A, Winestead Rectory, (1965)
Cornforth, J, The Inspiration of the Past Country House Taste in the Twentieth Century, (1985)
Country Life in 14 January, (1965)
Transactions of the Georgian Society for East Yorkshire in Transactions of the Georgian Society for East Yorkshire: Part 3, (1946), 44-45

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