THE RED HOUSE

THE RED HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1148401
Date first listed:: 11-Dec-1967
List Entry Name:: THE RED HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE RED HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1148401
Date first listed:: 11-Dec-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: THE RED HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE RED HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE RED HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hensall
National Grid Reference:: SE 58246 22561

Details

HENSALL CHURCH LANE SE 52 SE (west side, off)

3/4 The Red House (formerly listed as The 11.12.67 Vicarage)

GV II* Vicarage,now house. 1854 with later alterations. Architect, William Butterfield; patron, 7th Viscount Downe; builder, Charles Ward of Lincoln. Pinkish-red brick in English bond with grey tile roof. 2 storeys, 3 first- floor windows with single-storey range to rear. Aesthetic Functionalism. Off-centre entrance double plank doors with pointed overlight under pointed arch. To right, small 4-pane sash, large tripartite window with 4-pane sash a later insertion, and similar smaller window. All ground-floor openings below header arches and pointed relieving arches. To left of first floor a pointed tripartite window, the centre a 6-pane sash, under pointed arch set in high gable. To right 2-light timber mullion window with 2-pane sashes and a tripartite window, the centre a 12-pane sash, in half-hipped roof dormer. Ridge, rear and side stacks have cogged bands. Interior retains several original features. Library has bookshelves and fireplace. Dining room has oak fireplace, roll-moulded beams and panelled walls. Dogleg staircase with chamfered plank balusters. Shutters to some windows. 6-panel doors. An early example of a conscious Victorian return to an honest, unpretentious style of house building which is not stylistic and is devoid of imitative flavour. Conceived of as a group with St Paul's Church (qv) and Hensall Primary School and with similar groups at Cowick and Pollington. N Pevsner, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, pp 262-631. P Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971, pp 221, 308, 405 and 438.

Listing NGR: SE5824622561

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 326477
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 262-63
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971)
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971), 221,308 +

Legal

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