The Vicarage Cottage And Yard Wall

BAKEWELL

SK2168 BUTTS VIEW 831-1/4/49 (West side (off)) The Vicarage Cottage and yard wall

GV II

Former gardener's house, coach-house and stable to The Old Vicarage, Yeld Road (qv); now a single dwelling. c1870, altered C20. Coursed dressed limestone; red tile roof with crested ridges. Gardener's house to left of an L-shaped block of coach-house and stable now converted to form part of dwelling with integral garage; wall with gateway to front of cobbled stable yard. EXTERIOR: mostly one-storey and attic. House: boarded door to right with overlight and ashlar surround; gable with plain central sash in chamfered, quoined surround on deeply-chamfered projecting sill. Left return of house has triangular bay window with hipped roof set beneath a gabled half-dormer; window to each floor on right with 1/1 sashes. End stack on left has offset beneath yellow brick shaft and decorative brickwork top. To right of house are 2 openings now infilled by walling and large casements; overhanging eaves on shaped brackets; gabled roof dormer with projecting roof on brackets. Section to right is taller: segmental archway now glazed and with central door; casement window on right. Above the arch is a lantern and a gabled half-dormer with loft doorway. Brick end stack on left matches that of cottage; right end of ridge returns to cover a louvre beneath a gablet. Front wing has 2 round windows and C20 garage doors facing onto the yard. Roof steps down from the ridge louvre and has small stack to left of the garage. Rear: 4 gabled roof dormers. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDARY FEATURES: wall across the stable yard has square gatepiers of sandstone ashlar and coursed limestone; deeply-chamfered caps with ball finials. Likely to be part of the original scheme for the Vicarage site laid out by Alfred Waterhouse with extensive grounds landscaped by Edward Milner.

Listing NGR: SK2153468372