Description

SK 7699-7799 HAXEY CHURCH STREET (north side)

22/101 The Old Vicarage

GV II

Vicarage. 1845-6 by G T Andrews of York with minor later C19 alterations; service ranges to rear demolished in C20. White brick in Flemish bond with sandstone ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. Double-depth plan, with 2- room, central entrance hall east front (right room now garage), and 3-room garden front with central canted bay. 2 storeys. East front: 4 bays, including narrower bay to right. Ashlar plinth. Tripartite entrance has stone step to panelled door and 3-pane overlight in Doric doorcase with twin pilasters flanking narrow round-headed sidelights, entablature with moulded cornice and hood. Single slightly recessed 12-pane sashes to each side with ashlar sills beneath rubbed-brick flat arches; later C19 inserted 4-pane sash to right in similar surround. First floor: ashlar sill band, three 12- pane sashes to left, inserted 4-pane sash to right. Deep overhanging eaves. Hipped roof. Corniced ridge stack to right. South front: 3 bays, symmetrical. Central bay breaks forward with ground-floor canted bay window with steps to full-length 12-pane sashes beneath brick flat arches, coved eaves cornice, hipped roof. Side bays have steps to full-length tripartite sashes with glazing bars beneath brick flat arches. First-floor sill band and 12-pane sashes similar to those on east front, 3 to central bay, one each to side bays. Hipped roof, pair of corniced ridge stacks. Interior. Entrance hall with elliptical-arched opening to stairhall. Open-well cantilevered staircase with wreathed mahogany handrail, plain stick balusters and profiled cheek-pieces. Coved ceiling cornices to hall and main rooms. Pilastered marble chimney-piece to south-west dining room with modillioned cornice and roundel ornament. Panelled window shutters and window architraves with cornices to main rooms; 4-panelled doors in architraves throughout. Somewhat similar to Andrews' vicarage of 1846-7 at Winteringham, Glanford Borough, Humberside (qv). Architect's drawing in Lincolnshire Archive Office.

Listing NGR: SK7653099885

External Links

• Wikidata Q26364367

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)