St James Vicarage And Attached Coach House

PRESTON

SD5429 LARK HILL ROAD 941-1/7/178 (East side) No.16 St James' Vicarage and attached coach house

II

Small villa with attached coach-house, now vicarage. c.1800, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan. Two storeys over cellars, 3 bays, symmetrical, with stone plinth, rusticated quoins, moulded cornice, low parapet and shallow hipped roof. The centre, slightly recessed under a giant semi-circular blind arch, has a wide basket-arched doorway with gauged brick head, rendered inner surround, 6-panel door with panelled jambs and narrow side windows, and fanlight with Edwardian stained glass, and at 1st floor a 12-pane sashed window (4-panes in the upper leaf, 8 in the lower), raised sill, and lintel partly covered by the arch. Flanking the centre, the ground floor has 2 very large canted bay windows (probably mid C19 additions), each of 4 lights sashed without glazing bars, with a cornice and a blocking course with a central upstand, and the 1st floor has tripartite sashed windows with raised sills and wedge lintels. Side wall chimneys. Left return wall has one blind window on each floor, and a small sashed window with glazing bars; right-hand return wall altered (former service wing at this end demolished); rear has small lean-to in centre, a 4-pane stairwindow above this, a 16-pane sash to the left and 2 at 1st floor, and steps down to a cellar doorway (now blocked). Linked to the west end by a short screen wall is the former coach-house, a small square single-storey building, with quoins, a large square window, and pyramidal roof. INTERIOR: cellar ceiling supported by slender cast-iron columns; dog-legged staircase with cast-iron ornamental open-work balusters.

Listing NGR: SD5470629238