The Old Vicarage

GRIMSBY

TA2606SE CHURCH LANE, Scartho 699-1/40/116 (East side) 25/03/74 The Old Vicarage (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH LANE, Scartho (East side) The Vicarage)

GV II

Vicarage, now house. 1846. Pale orange-brown brick in Flemish bond; Welsh slate roof. Main range T-shaped on plan: 2-room east garden front with single-room wing to west and entrance porch in south-west angle; small rear outhouse range and courtyard to north-west. EXTERIOR: south front has 2-storeys; 2-window range to right and single-window wing set back to left with a single-storey hipped-roofed open porch in angle. Porch entrance has Tudor-arched doorway with painted stone surround of slender pilasters with nail-head moulding to the imposts, and recessed panels to the spandrels. Similar opening to porch left return, the lower section blocked. Part-glazed panelled inner door. Main range: single-bay section to left has French window with glazing bars beneath cambered arch; 2-bay section to right has 6/6 ground-floor sashes. 2-course brick first-floor band. 3/6 first-floor sashes. All windows have sills, cambered brick arches and imitation louvred shutters. Moulded wooden eaves board. Hipped roof. Right return forms 3-bay east garden front. Central bay breaks forward with wooden ground-floor canted bay with French window with margin lights and side lights with glazing bars. Windows similar to south front but without shutters. Pair of banded ridge stacks with octagonal chimneypots; side wall stack to west wing. INTERIOR: staircase hall has round-arched openings, cantilevered staircase with plain balusters, swept mahogany handrail and C20 newel. Moulded cornices and panelled doors in architraves to hall and main rooms. Ground-floor front room has grey marble chimneypiece with reeded surround and oval medallions; first floor has 4 good original pilastered stone chimneypieces with panelled and channelled friezes and elaborate cast-iron grates. This building replaced an earlier moated rectory house. (The Church Publishers: The story of St. Giles' church, Scartho, Grimsby, Lincolnshire: Ramsgate: 1960-: 8; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department:

List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.56; Grimsby Planning Department: Scartho Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.56).

Listing NGR: TA2672006424