THE VICARAGE

THE VICARAGE, THE VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390555
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: THE VICARAGE
Statutory Address:: THE VICARAGE, THE VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390555
Date first listed:: 08-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: THE VICARAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE VICARAGE, THE VILLAGE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE VICARAGE, THE VILLAGE

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Prestbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ 89886 77022

Details

PRESTBURY

203/0/10010 THE VILLAGE 08-AUG-03 (Northwest,off) The Vicarage

II Vicarage. 1893, with minor late C20 alterations. By Ernest Newton, architect. Red brick with tile hanging and timber framing, gable and ridge chimneys and hipped roof with a plain tile roof covering. Restrained Arts and Crafts style.

PLAN: L-shaped plan, aligned north-south, with low service wing extending from north gable.

EXTERIOR: Entrance(west)front of 2 storeys and attic, and 3 bays. Advanced timber-framed gable to centre and extending forward of it, a pitched roofed open porch, also timber-framed with a wide shallow arched opening and timber mullioned windows to side walls. The porch encloses a half-glazed door with a single side light. In the framed gable above, multi-pane casement frames are set within the frame members to light the main stair. To the left, 2 and 3-light ground floor casements and flat-roofed 3-light dormer window to attic, Single storeyed service range further left with hipped roof and 2 wide double doorways. Blind bay to right of entrance porch. Garden (east) front with half-hipped gable to right with canted ground floor bay window, 4-light transomed first floor window and 3-light window to gable apex. Further left, 3 and 4-light transomed windows. Centre bay doorway integral to window opening, and to its left, a square window with a stone frame lights inglenook fireplace. Right return at junction with set back service range has a second square window, and a projecting chimney with diagonally-set linked stacks. Left return with canted bay window within tile hung end wall, 2 light first floor window and 4 -light attic window below half hip

INTERIOR: Front entrance opens onto spacious stair hall, with closed string turned baluster dog-leg stair. The hall gives access to the service range, dining room, study and main reception room, all with 2-panel doors and original hearth surrounds. Dining room with chamfered spine beam and wainscot panelling and hearth with overmantle shelf. Main reception room with full-height panelling, with inlay work to panel framing and moulded cornice. Wide inglenook fireplace set behind chamfered bressumer, and with panelled overmantle to hearth. Bay window with fitted window seating. Upper floors with original hearths and joinery, and half-glazed screen to landing vestibule.

A carefully-detailed and little-altered Arts and Crafts house of 1893 by the notable architect Ernest Newton, a pupil of Norman Shaw.

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

Legacy System number:: 490493
Legacy System:: LBS

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