The Old Vicarage

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TA 15 SQ 3/5

BEWHOLME NORTH ROAD The Old Vicarage

(Formerly listed under ATWICK ROAD (north side))

(Formerly listed as Former Rectory)

II Rectory, now house. 1859 by William Burges. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Central direct entry plan with additional single storey lean-to bay, and stair tower rising through full height of house, to left. Two storeys and attics: 6 windows to ground floor, 5 to upper floor. Symmetrical elevation. Lean-to porch on open timber frame to pointed double-chamfered doorway under hoodmould. Double-leaf boarded door flanked by three cross-mullion windows to each side, each with sills and shouldered lintels under relieving arches. Chamfered first floor sill band. Five similar windows, without relieving arches, with horizontal glazing bars, to first floor. Three raking dormers with casements with glazing bars. Deep overhanging eaves supported on giant curved and chamfered brackets springing from corbels at first floor sill band level. Bargeboards with pierced quatrefoil motif, end and axial stacks. Stair tower to left has similar windows to main elevation under separate hipped roof. Interior: most original features survive including a cut string stair with scrolled tread ends, turned balusters, and moulded, wreathed, handrail. Right front room has a white marble fire surround with coloured tiles, left front room, a wooden fire surround with pulvinated frieze and Dutch tiles depicting Biblical scenes; right rear room, a grey marble fire surround with tiles depicting scenes from the novels of Sir Walter Scott. In addition there are a large number of 6-panel doors and an unaltered set of servants rooms, with cast-iron fireplaces, and in their original paintwork.

Listing NGR: TA1656750025