Hicklam House

LOTHERTON CUM ABERFORD MAIN STREET SE43NW LS25 (east side) Aberford 2/65 Hicklam House

II

House, now house and shop. Probably mid C18; altered. Brick with limestone dressings (and rear wall of limestone rubble), slate roof. Square plan. Three storeys 3 x 3 bays, but with a single-storey semi-circular bay at each side. Classical style, with plinth, rusticated stone quoins, ground-floor sillband, modillioned cornice; central doorway with fanlight now enclosed by flat-roofed stone porch with clasping pilasters, cornice, low parapet, sashed window with sillband, and doorway in right-hand side wall; sashed windows with gauged brick heads and triple keystones: 12 panes at 1st floor, similar at ground floor but lower leaves altered, and square 6-pane sashes at 2nd floor. Hipped roof with chimneys on side slopes. Return walls similar to front, but front bay of each has a semicircular bay window, that on the left-hand side now incorporated in an addition continued towards the rear, and the other altered to communicate with a glazed addition. Rear wall of rubble, enclosed at ground floor by passage between house and service range to rear (which is not included in the item). Interior: open-well staircase with open string, scrolled brackets, 2 slim vase baslusters per tread, ramped handrail wreathed to the curtail; at half landing an unusual Venetian screen with modillioned cornice.

Listing NGR: SE4336936244