The Old Vicarage

BAKEWELL

SK2168 YELD ROAD 831-1/4/184 (East side) 20/05/74 The Old Vicarage (Formerly Listed as: MONYASH ROAD (South East side) Hurtwood and The Vicarage)

GV II

Former vicarage now residential home. 1869. By Alfred Waterhouse for the encumbent Edward Balston. Squared limestone in diminishing courses with ashlar sandstone dressings; red tile roof with yellow brick chimney shafts. Gothic Revival style. U-shaped plan having double-depth centre and cross wings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with cellar and attic; 1:3:1-bay entrance front. Chamfered plinth; square-headed windows with deeply-chamfered sills and chamfered, quoined surrounds to plain sashes (some original coloured leaded lights survive). Entrance front: gabled one-storey porch in angle with cross wing on right has original boarded door with decorative ironwork in moulded pointed arch with hoodmould; crested ridge tiles. Stepped 3-light stair window to main wall above has transom, pointed-arched lights and linked hoodmoulds; to left of this are single sashes then paired sashes beneath a gabled dormer with quatrefoil. Right cross wing: paired sashes beneath string course; single sash to first floor and plate-traceried roundel to the gable. Left cross wing: single-storey projection with 3 plain sashes and gable slit. Main gable behind with narrow sashes which flank a central projecting stack with quoined offset plinth but no shafts. Scrolled iron gutter brackets to swept eaves; tall ridge stacks with ashlar offsets and stepped brick caps with cogging. Rear: corbelled stack with cylindrical shaft; C20 conservatory. Right return: 3 bays, the 2 on right project and have a rectangular bay window and canted bay window with cornices and hipped roofs. Transomed ground-floor windows; continuous dripmould; first-floor sill band. INTERIOR: stair hall with grey marble fireplace (resited from a bedroom); large open-well staircase in pitch-pine with turned newels and balusters with diagonal struts beneath the handrail; monogram 'EDB'; galleried landing and infilled arcade.

Dining room: grey marble fireplace with mantle on brackets. Attic has 2 slate cisterns which collect top water and feed well in former kitchen (now concealed).

Listing NGR: SK2147468369