The Vicarage

POLLINGTON BALNE MOOR ROAD SE 61 NW (south side) 8/20 The Vicarage GV II Vicarage. 1853-54 by William Butterfield for William Henry Dawnay, seventh Viscount Downe. Built by Charles Ward of Lincoln. Red brick in English bond; C20 rendering to south front and tops of stacks. Plain tile roof. Double-depth plan, with twin east-west range, south range with 2 rooms, entrance-lobby and stairhall; 3-room north range with rear outshut; walled courtyard with carriage-house adjoining to north. Principal south garden front: 2 storeys, 3 irregular bays. Central 3-light window with central glazed door and sidelights with glazing bars. 3-light window to left with C20 glazing in original opening. Projecting bay to right has 5-light window with C20 glazing in original opening beneath cogged brick band. Central first-floor 3-light stair window. All windows beneath brick soldier arches. Steeply-pitched double-span roof. 3 buttressed stacks with cornices and gabled coping. West entrance front has twin single-bay gabled ranges, that to right set back, with entrance in angle: 2-fold board door with strap hinges beneath 3-pane overlight in chamfered wooden reveal beneath brick soldier arch; first-floor cross-mullioned window. Section to left has 4- light mullioned ground-floor window and cross-mullioned first-floor window. All windows to west front are original, with chamfered wooden mullions, brick soldier arches and pointed relieving arches. East elevation: 2-light ground-floor window with plate glass sashes, two 3-light first-floor windows with C20 glazing in original openings with soldier and relieving arches. Original door, sashes and cross-mullioned windows with glazing bars to north side, those to first floor beneath raised eaves. Some rainwater heads bear Downe monogram and coronet. Coach-house: carriage entrance to south with 2- fold board door beneath lintel, flanked by single board doors, that to left with 3-pane overlight; C20 garage door to left gable end with pointed 2-fold loft door above; steeply-pitched roof. Adjoining brick-coped courtyard wall has pair of timber gates between coach-house and house. Interior of house contains original dog-leg staircase, wooden chimney-pieces to main east rooms with trefoiled brackets to mantelshelves, panelled doors in architraves, and panelled dado throughout ground floor. Contemporary with neighbouring church and school (qv), and with similar groups at nearby Hensall (North Yorkshire) and Cowick (qv). Pollington Vicarage is reputed to have influenced Philip Webb when designing The Red House at Bexleyheath. P Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971. J Killen, A Short History of Cowick Hall, 1967, p 27-29. R Dixon and S Muthesius, Victorian Architecture, 1978, p 49 and p 208. Photographs in NMR.

Listing NGR: SE6104719212