St. John's Old Vicarage

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SD 92SE SD 997232 3/264

HEBDEN ROYD C.P. Cragg Vale SWINE MARKET LANE, St. John's Old Vicarage

GV II Former vicarage, now house, dated 1901. Dressed stone, slate roof. Two and a half storeys. Good quality Vernacular Revival. Three bay front has matching gables with copings, kneelers and ball finials. Left hand gable set back but with two storey bay window flush with right hand gable with ten-light mullioned and transomed window to both floors. Right hand has similar arrangement but with arched centre light and three-light attic window. Set between is wide segmental archway with expressed keystone and moulded impost flanked by Ionic pilasters, entablature in form of open arched balustrade to first floor balcony. Gabled rear wing at right angles to front two gables which have parallel ridges. Left hand return wall has window set in the angle with rear wing with four-light and two-light windows in the two faces. Rear has doorway with shaped lintel and elaborately moulded surround. Right hand return wall has canted ground floor bay window to the left of which is tablet inscribed:

"To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Hinchliffe Hinchliffe esq. J.P. of Cragg Hall in this parish this Vicarage house is erected by his daughter Helen Strickland, A. D. 1901 "

Three stacks one to each ridge. Nearby was Cragg Hall (now demolished) in the style of Norman Shaw. This vicarage has similar characteristics.

Listing NGR: SD9979623267