The Old Vicarage with attached wall and gateway on west side of forecourt
The Old Vicarage with attached wall and gateway on west side of forecourt, Howbrook Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315046
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage with attached wall and gateway on west side of forecourt
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Vicarage with attached wall and gateway on west side of forecourt, Howbrook Lane
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- Date:
- 2002-07-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/07420/15
- Rights:
- © Paul Eggleston. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315046
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage with attached wall and gateway on west side of forecourt
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Vicarage with attached wall and gateway on west side of forecourt, Howbrook Lane
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Vicarage with attached wall and gateway on west side of forecourt, Howbrook Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wortley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 30891 99217
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 November 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SK39NW
4/123
WORTLEY
HOWBROOK LANE (north side, off)
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. Two storeys, three x two 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 front: 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, two-light windows on each floor to left with stair window beyond having three transoms, and keystone linked to first-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 two-light window, double-transomed four-light window over. Right bay has three-light mullioned and transomed window to each floor. Tall corniced ashlar stacks on roof slope to left of bay one. Curved wall projecting to right of bay one has end piers and central pedimented doorway in style of porch.
Garden front on right return: each bay has a two-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 two plaques.
Central ridge stack with cornice.
Listing NGR: SK3089199217
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333999
- 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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