The Old Vicarage with attached wall and gateway on west side of forecourt

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WORTLEY HOWBROOK LANE (north side, off) The Old Vicarage with attached wall and gateway on west side of forecourt

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Vicarage. Dated 1880. Patron the Earl of Wharncliffe. Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone, stone slate roof. In Jacobean Revival style. Two storeys, three x two gabled bays with curtain wall enclosing single-storey outbuilding in yard on left return. Throughout, there are ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights and iron casements; dripmoulds; shaped gables with plaques; moulded copings and ball finials.

Entrance front: left bay set back with single-storey porch in angle. Porch has moulded door surround with keyed round arch and pediment with finialled parapet. Cross-window above porch, two-light windows on each floor to left with stair window beyond having three transoms, and keystone linked to first-floor dripmould on right. Gable copings sweep down with catslide roof to left and continue over gable of linked outbuilding. Central bay has door to left of two-light window, double-transomed four-light window over. Right bay has three-light mullioned and transomed window to each floor. Tall corniced ashlar stacks on roof slope to left of bay one. Curved wall projecting to right of bay one has end piers and central pedimented doorway in style of porch.

Garden front on right return: each bay has a two-storey canted-bay window with 1 : 4 : 1 lights on each floor; parapet to each bay with pediments and ball finials.

Gables have date numerals in two plaques.

Central ridge stack with cornice.

Listing NGR: SK3089199217