St. John's Old Vicarage

St. John's Old Vicarage, Swine Market Lane

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1278611
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
St. John's Old Vicarage
Statutory Address:
St. John's Old Vicarage, Swine Market Lane
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1278611
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
St. John's Old Vicarage
Statutory Address 1:
St. John's Old Vicarage, Swine Market Lane

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
St. John's Old Vicarage, Swine Market Lane

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

District:
Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Hebden Royd
National Grid Reference:
SD 99796 23267

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11th February 2020 to reformat the text to current standard

SD 92SE
SD 997232
3/264

HEBDEN ROYD C.P.
Cragg Vale
SWINE MARKET LANE,
St. John's Old Vicarage

GV
II
Former vicarage, now house, dated 1901. Dressed stone, slate roof. Two and a half storeys. Good quality Vernacular Revival. Three bay front has matching gables with copings, kneelers and ball finials. Left hand gable set back but with two storey bay window flush with right hand gable with ten-light mullioned and transomed window to both floors. Right hand has similar arrangement but with arched centre light and three-light attic window. Set between is wide segmental archway with expressed keystone and moulded impost flanked by Ionic pilasters, entablature in form of open arched balustrade to first floor balcony. Gabled rear wing at right angles to front two gables which have parallel ridges. Left hand return wall has window set in the angle with rear wing with four-light and two-light windows in the two faces. Rear has doorway with shaped lintel and elaborately moulded surround. Right hand return wall has canted ground floor bay window to the left of which is tablet inscribed:

"To the Glory of God
and in loving memory of
Hinchliffe Hinchliffe esq. J.P.
of Cragg Hall in this parish
this Vicarage house is erected
by his daughter Helen Strickland,
A. D. 1901 "

Three stacks one to each ridge. Nearby was Cragg Hall (now demolished) in the style of Norman Shaw. This vicarage has similar characteristics.

Listing NGR: SD9979623267

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
405350
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

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