Former Vicarage With Terrace Retaining Wall And Steps

HUNSTANWORTH HUNSTANWORTH NY 94 NW 4/63 (inset) Former vicarage with terrace retaining wall and steps GV II

Vicarage, now house. Circa 1863 by S.S. Teulon for Rev. Daniel Capper. Coursed, squared sandstone of irregular sizes, with ashlar dressings; roof of dark blue slates with slate-hung gable. L-plan. Varied levels and heights: south elevation basement, one or 2 storeys, 4 bays. Main block at right has projecting right entrance bay, with 2-centred open arch at right and flatter 2-centred window at left under hipped corbelled oriel; right corner buttresses; Gothic- style door in porch behind arch; crow-stepped gable. Set-back left bay of basement and 2 storeys with 2-centred-arched ground-floor and square-headed windows. Left bay gabled. Most windows sashes of late C19 type. Roof has crow-steps on left return gable of main block; slate-hung gable on left return of service wing below half hip; diagonally-set tall stone chimney at left; tall ridge chimney on service wing. Open arch contains low patterned wood gates. Rear elevation has decorative wooden canopy over partly-glazed door; rear of service wing has pig-sty with stone feeding-trough in wall, and owl-hole with stone shelf in shelter part.

Area wall has stone flags set in left end as steps to basement, and flat coping. Retaining wall curves round right corner of house and has rounded coping and upward-tilting steps curving down from right end.

Listing NGR: NY9492549134